Words have consequences

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 150423

> Alla again:
<SNIP>
> So, thank  you for your answer, I am just still not quite clear as 
to 
> how "forcing  Draco out" helps Gryffindors to keep high moral 
ground, 
> but hexing him (  independently from each other if I may ) does 
not.
> 
> 
> Julie:
> See above. High moral ground: neutralizing the threat. Not so 
> high moral ground: victimizing once the threat is neutralized. 
> I think this scene, along with several dozen other scenes in 
> the books, focuses on one of JKR's main themes in Harry Potter,
> which is "doing what's right over what's easy." In both small and 
> large ways the characters are continually forced to make that 
choice.
> Some fail repeatedly (Peter, for instance), some rarely 
(Dumbledore,
> Lily?), and most of the children in the books vacillate between the
> two (including our star character, Harry), while hopefully 
building 
> their characters to the point where they will choose what is right 
> rather than what is easy as a regular mode of behavior. 


Alla:

Okay, I would see your point, Julie IF I was able to find ANYWHERE 
in that scene where Gryffindors continued victimising once the 
threat us neutralised.

Could you point me out to the relevant quote, please?

Draco was not subjected to continuous series of hexes. He was 
subjected to INDEPENDENT one time hexes from everybody. Once he was 
on the floor, nobody attacked him again, right?

You agree that it was a threat and it had to be neutralised, 
correct? 

So, they did neutralised the threat and stopped at that. Exactly 
what they should have done, no?

I mean, I suppose that you could say that they could have carry out 
unconscious Malfoy and Co out of their appartment instead of 
kicking  them out, but I don't think it is reasonable to expect them 
to do it.

Besides that bit, I don't see anything that can be even interpreted 
as victimizing once the threat is neutralised.

I am at least glad that we agree that Draco and Co WAS a threat that 
should have been neutralized. :)


IMO of course,

Alla,

who goes out to slap her hands again.