Childhood values v Adulthood values in Potterverse WAS: Re: Power vs. Trust

[hickengruendler]

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> a_svirn:
> Of course they did set up to endanger villagers. It was an 
adventure 
> and danger was its necessary element. They thought it was a 
splendid 
> lark. I'd say though that it's not so much "the childhood values", 
> but rather "the Gryffindor values". They were brave weren't they? 
> They were chivalrous too (where Lupin was concerned). 
Unfortunately, 
> in this instance their bravery bordered on foolhardiness, and as 
for 
> their chivalry, well, they did not seem to think that villagers are 
> entitled to it.
>

Hickengruendler:

Maybe I'm just dense, but I'm not sure in which danger the villagers 
exactly where? Sure, Lupin was a werewolf, but he was locked in the 
Shrieking Shack, or am I missing something? And he would have been 
there, anyway, with or without his friends. And the others weren't a 
danger for the villagers. They did not plan to harm anybody. If 
anyone were in danger, than it were the Marauders themselves, 
particularly Peter, when he ran in rat form into the Forbidden 
Forrest. Imagine if a hungry owl had spotted him (though in 
retrospective, it might not have been a big loss). Of course they 
were reckless and I do not think they, and particularly Sirius, 
really cared what happened to other people, but I do not think that 
their actions endangered the villagers.