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[Kathryn Lambert]

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juli17 at aol.com wrote:          
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>> I DO however care about the Weasley twins, about Harry, Hermione, 
and all the other "good guys." I've invested emotion in them, it 
matters to me how their behavior reflects on them. That's why I've 
sometimes criticized their actions; not because they're comparable 
to DEs or to Umbridge, but because they're NOT. Thus I want their 
behavior to rise above, even when I know they too are only human <<

  ***Katie replies:
  Well, of course there's shades of grey in everyone's personality. And I'm not saying that being a good person means every single action you make is the right one...nor am I saying that bad people always do bad things. And the shades of grey kind of makes my point, actually. Everyone's been debating whether what the twins did was right or wrong...well, of course it is never good to bully people...unless they have it coming. As I see it, that was KARMA. Pure and simple. As was Hagrid giving Dudley the pig's tail in PS/SS, and all the other bad things that happen to bad people. I don't think that the twins' behavior is at all abnormal for teenage boys, and who says good people have to be perfect all the time? Harry certainly does his share of rule-breaking and not-so-nice things...and I think he's a good person.
 
  Look, my point is this, I guess. Whose side are we all on? I mean, we've been debating the twins' behavior, Hermione's behavior(in other threads), and even Dumbledore's behavior! I personally don't want to shred my protagonists to death. I love Harry, Hermione, DD, the Weasleys, Lupin, and all the others on *my* side. I do not always *approve* of their behavior...especially when Hermione attacked Ron with the birds in HBP...but I always approve of their overall mission and I believe their hearts and souls are deeply good.

  Katie, who loves everyone in HP except the Slytherins, the DE's, and the Dursleys...and sometimes the MoM.