Conflict, imposition, and morality (Christian content)

[vmonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 140776

Del wrote:
You see, I have a HUGE problem with defining what
is right and what is wrong in the Potterverse. In
the Potterverse, it seems like what DD thinks
defines what is right and what is wrong. Being on
the side of DD is right, having the same morality
as DD is right, but doing or thinking differently
than DD is wrong. My problem is that I think that
DD's actions and morality are far from perfect to
begin with. So there's no way I'm going to use DD
as the line in the sand to define who is right
and who is wrong.

vmonte:
I also think that Dumbledore has made some huge mistakes--but he is 
not an evil person, just imperfect like the rest of us. Dumbledore is 
a moral person; Snape is not. We cannot keep making exuses for Snape. 

Sorry, but there is a right and wrong way to live--in HP and the real 
world. There is too much of a moral message in JKR's books for the 
reasoning behind Snape's immorality to be the idea that it is right 
to perceive life as though there is no right or wrong way to live. 
And that there is no good or evil, but only power...blah blah blah. 

Vivian

I'm not a pessimist, just a realist.