[HPforGrownups] Unforgivables - from a different angle

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 174393

From: Maeg <chaomath at hitthenail.com>
>Maeg, who finds this particularly sad considering JKR's personal  
>statements in support of Amnesty International -- a group "focused on  
>preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and  
>mental integrity."

Bart:
In recent years, even Amnesty International has been carefully ignoring groups, to the point where it criticizes the way some groups defend themselves, without addressing the actions that caused them to have to defend themselves in the first place. It is sort of like the treatment of non-Wizards in the WW (cleverly getting this on-topic); when you don't hold every being up to the same standards, you are taking away the humanity of those whom you excuse. Hagrid showed the giants COULD be taught to live with each other, considering his success with Grawp in spite of everybody telling him it was hopeless. "They aren't really as good as us, therefore we have to take this into account when judging their actions." is a dangerous attitude to have; DH demonstrates this quite well.

Bart