Debatable ethical issues in OotP and HBP

[Miles]

No: HPFGUIDX 143307

redeyedwings wrote:
> Besides, "left no depths of cunning," quote sounds to me a lot like
> Master Yoda's: "Do. Or do not. There is no 'try.'"

Miles:
It sounds to me like a quote of the Sorting Hat:

"Or perhaps in Slytherin
You'll make your real friends,
Those cunning folk use any means
To achieve their ends." (Book 1)

and

"For instance, Slytherin
Took only pure-blood wizards
Of great cunning just like him." (Book 5)

"Cunning" is a characteristic of Slytherin and his House. The Sorting Hat
considered to put Harry into Slytherin. Voldemort, a Slytherin, "marked him
as his equal". And Dumbledore himself tends to "the end justifies the
means", doesn't he - thinking of Marietta in his office after the revealing
of the DA at OotP?
So, this is the old antagonism ethics of conscience vs. ethics of
responsibility - and this will be a major topic of the fights in book 7.

Miles