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[houyhnhnm102]

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Katie:

> 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. 

houyhnhnm:

I don't think that the discussions of the twins', Hermione's, 
or Dumbledore's has as its purpose "to shred [the] protagonists 
to death", but rather to look at the way in which the petty 
sins of commission and omission of "good" people contribute 
to the presence of evil in the world.  The banality of evil--
that's what I think the Potter books are about.

Does your partisanship for "your" side go so far that you 
would still be defending their mistakes should their mistakes 
enable the triumph of Voldemort?  The defeat of Voldemort--
that's what we all want, isn't it?