Amortentia and re The morality of love potions/Merope and Tom Sr.

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 152377

> Magpie:
> I think that's why it's being compared to rape--there's nothing 
> *wrong* with Tom acting on what he thinks is love but is only 
> artificial obsession.  His body, his physical feelings, are tampered 
> with so he no longer has all the facilities with which he usually 
> makes decisions.  Whether or not he should have realized that he 
> wasn't really in love but only obsessed, where is he behaving badly 
> towards her?  

Pippin:
I guess that's where we disagree -- there *is* something wrong with
acting on what you think is love but is really artificial obsession. Let's
remember that it doesn't take magic --there are whole industries in 
the real world dedicated to inducing obsessions. 

Every day, movie stars get thousands of marriage proposals
from people they've never met. Famous criminals get them too. If the
obsessed person were accepted, I don't think they could ignore their
responsibility for their spouse or their child simply on the grounds
that  they couldn't resist the hype.

Pippin