Choose right over what is easy

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 128763

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "B.G." <hambtty at t...> wrote:
>....remember, if the time should come when you have to make a 
choice between what is right and what is  easy, remember what 
happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and  brave, because he 
strayed across the path of Lord Voldermort. Remember Cedric 
Diggory".   
> 
(snip> Up to this point DD has been teaching Harry lessons in modern-
day Stoic philosophy - learn to use reason over emotion.  LV taps 
into 
> emotion and uses it against his foes.  In this speech isn't DD 
calling for all to use emotion - the very thing that gives LV 
power?  I'm  confused.


Tonks:
I think that the lesson DD is giving us here is that we need to 
remember the innocent victims of evil.  Evil in one form or another 
is all around us.  We can stumble upon it anywhere. Often we are in 
circumstances where we might see or be a part of an act of evil, no 
matter how small.  The easy thing is to say nothing, to go along 
with the crowd, to turn ones head, and so on.  That is what DD is 
telling us.  Don't be apathetic to evil, don't turn your back.  What 
happens to any of us happens to all of us.  As the author of "For 
Whom the Bell Tolls" said "never seek to know for whom the bell 
tolls it tolls for thee".  Therefore do something.  Speak up, act to 
stop it, do what you can even thought it is very difficult.  And I 
think that it also means "do what is right even if it means losing 
your own life".

Tonks_op