[HPforGrownups] Re: Real child abuse/ JKR intentions/ Snape again/Draco

[sunnylove0 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 145769

 
In a message dated 1/2/2006 4:22:41 PM Mountain Standard Time,  
dumbledore11214 at yahoo.com writes:

Even in  that 
scene, Draco is PUNISHED, Fake!Moody does not just attack him out of  
nowhere, he punishes him for attacking Harry.


No, no, no.  If it was Real!Moody, I'd agree with you. But this is  
Fake!Moody, who hates "Death Eaters who Walked Free" more than anything.   To me, he 
isn't truly, beyond his spoken excuse, punishing Draco for anything  but being 
Lucius Malfoy's child. And that, for me, puts him right on the  same level with 
Snape's treatment of Harry. (Who he's also looking forward  to "a little chat 
with".
 
Not that there's really any excuse for Draco's behavior, but as has been  
said before, moral behavior must be applied equally, to the bad as well as the  
good, or it isn't moral behavior.  Real!Moody didn't kill.  He never  sank to 
the level of the Death Eaters.  But it sure wasn't because they  didn't deserve 
it.
 
Amber
 
 
 
Amber


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