Whose side are we on?? :was: Arthur right or not?

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 > >   ****Katie replies:****
> >   Ok...trying to remain coherent...Why are we picking apart 
things 
> like practical jokes and such when LV has killed god knows how many 
> people, his DE's torment and endanger people every day...I mean, 
the 
> bad guys' actions are so obviously much worse than anything anyone 
> on *our* side has done...why is it even debatable?
> 
> Magpie:
> Because it's very important, imo, that ethics don't begin and end 
> with finding somebody worse and leaving it at that.  One doesn't 
> have to only ever praise the good side or take a vow of silence on 
> anything questionable in order to keep onesself from forgetting 
that 
> mass murder and genocide are bad.  Besides which, the good side is 
> the side we're mostly reading about so of course we're going to 
talk 
> more about their actions.  We tend to talk about the more 
> interestingly presented characters, which means usually little talk 
> about Voldemort and more talk about Harry and his friends, and 
Snape 
> and Draco.  
> 
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Alla:

To me, Katie hit on something very important here and something I do 
confess to finding amusing.

Now, let me put a disclaimer, I fully accept everybody's right to 
shred any character to death and yes, I know that this is a work of 
fiction, etc, etc.

I am looking at discussing characters from within the story angle for 
this post.

Yes, questioning **good guys** behavior is understandable and 
interesting, etc.

What I find amusing is that while **good guys** are held to the 
highest ethical standards of behavior, Snape and Draco's behavior 
gets excused pretty much for everything IMO.

And I am not replying to your argument exactly, more like in general, 
so bear with me.

So, Ron is very bad when he says Get away from me werewolf, for 
example, but Draco just does not know any better than to call 
Hermione "mudblood" for example, he could not help himself when he 
was so excited to start serving Voldemort. He  just does not know any 
better. 

Oh, and of course Snape. I am not going to start the long rant, been 
there, done that and will probably do it again, just the most recent 
one I glanced at.  If Snape loved Lily, then of course he will be 
hating Harry, after all it is so hard on poor Severus to look at 
Harry, who does not appreciate his mother's sacrifice.
Um, get over it Snape, get over it now and think about how hard it is 
for a child to grew up an orphan.

Yes, sure books are about petty evil too, not just evil on the grand 
scale such as Voldemort, but for some reason what Snape does to 
Neville and Harry does not count as such.

So, what am I trying to say? I am not really sure, except of course 
it is fun to analyze and question bad and good guys behavior, but, in 
comparison any mistakes good guys make really paled to me in 
comparison to Snape and Darco's behavior.

Now, of course one can argue that Snape and Draco are really the good 
guys and should be sympathized with, I guess, then my whole post does 
not really make much sense.

Am I making any sense to you?

JMO,

Alla