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[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 161515

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> Pippin wrote in
> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/160910>:
> 
> << I think they symbolize extremism, regardless of platform. The
> werewolves are seeking additional rights, the pureblood faction wishes
> to restore rights it once had and restrict the rights of others,
> Voldemort panders to both while his private agenda does not include
> sharing power with anyone. But they are all united under the Dark
> Mark, in other words, by their acceptance of violence as a means to
> political ends. >>

Catlady:
> 'Violence as a means to political ends'? Like the American Revolution?

Pippin:

Canon refers more than once, IIRC, to Sirius's deadened eyes.
Those who are deprived of their rights and freedom are being murdered,
whether swiftly or by inches.   JKR clearly does not think much of the 
Slinkhards who would not lift a hand, or a wand, to save them.

But though Voldemort may lure the naive with a promise  to seek 
the rights of the many, he can only deliver privileges to the few. 
 His resort to terror bears that out. Voldemort must create fear 
because in the absence of a common ideal only fear can hold his 
disparate troops together.  Those who realize that and remain 
under the Dark Mark have bartered their claim to justice for 
something else.

Pippin