Hating Dark Arts (was re James' essence...)

[steven1965aaa]

No: HPFGUIDX 154049

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Marion Ros" <mros at ...> wrote:

Besides that, the Marauders (and the Golden Trio) have this nasty 
habit of being selfreferential in there moral code. "We are Good, 
therefore what we do is Good. They are Bad, therefor what they do is 
Bad. If they use the same hex as I do, there hex is Dark, but mine 
is Light. Because they are Dark Wizards and I am a Light Wizard".


Steven1965aaa:

I think this is a very interesting point. Especially in HBP we see 
Harry (fake lucky potion, choice of words to Slughorn because felix 
was telling him Slughorn would not remember any of this in the 
morning)and Hermione (confundus (sp.) during goalkeeper tryout) 
exhibiting what might be described as "Slytherin qualities" in order 
to achieve their aims.  However, I don't think Harry would consider 
attempting to "justify" that as being ok "because I am a good 
person", it's more that (with respect to Slughorn) it was for a 
critically important end (to obtain info. necessary to vanquish 
Voldemort) and with respect to Ron what he did was pretty harmless.  
In Hermione's case, on the other hand, it was not for an important 
end at all, it was really just cheating to help Ron.  But I don't 
think she would consider that her actions were "justified" 
because "I am good", I think if pressed she would have to admit that 
it was not the right thing to do.