[HPforGrownups] Re: Hagrid and Snape: Was Snape, Apologies, and Redemption

[MadameSSnape at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 152850

 
In a message dated 5/24/2006 2:00:06 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
horridporrid03 at yahoo.com writes:

My  goodness, it looks like the entire Potterverse is populated 
by "not always  nice so therefore not good" people.  According to the 
rules of karma,  I guess Voldemort will win and the Potterverse will 
be destroyed.  <vebg>


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Sherrie here:
 
:::chuckle::: Betsy, thanks for a smile at the end of a long day.  And  I 
wholeheartedly agree.
 
"Nice" and "good" definitely don't equate - and fiction is full of not-nice  
good people. (Forget real life - you'd be amazed at the "nice, polite"  people 
I've met who are doing 10-20...) I can think of three fictional  examples 
without even trying: Archibald Craven in The Secret Garden; Dr. House  in the 
series of the same name (who I swear really IS related to my family -  he's got 
the smarts & the snark down to a science), & Det. John Munch in  Law & Order: 
SVU.  Surly, snarky, rude, not-nice - but every one a  good man.  And how about 
Mary Poppins?  She isn't really  conventionally "nice", now, is she?  How 
about King Mongkut of  Siam in The King & I?  Or Paul Berthalet in Carnival?  Or 
the  Beast in Beauty & the Beast?  Miss Dove in one of my  all-time favorite 
soppy films, Good Morning Miss Dove?  Heck -  some of Arthur's knights aren't 
always portrayed as Sir Sweetness &  Light...  (Okay, so that's more than three 
- I sometimes get carried  away!)
 
Nope - "nice = good" is about the same as "pretty = good" - in the words of  
Sportin' Life, "It ain't necessarily so..."  If it was, Lucius Malfoy would  
be the hero of the series.
 
Or maybe Charlie Weasley...
 
Sherrie (who really DOES share a last name with one of the characters  
mentioned above)
 
 
 
 


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