Unforgivables - from a different angle

[Phyllis Stevens]

No: HPFGUIDX 174579

Magpie wrote:

And also the series has a pattern of changing
how it presents pain in general. I mean, I personally not only get
the impression that Draco is reluctant and Harry is happy to do their
Crucios, but that Ollivander is portrayed as someone being given
painful electric shocks that should make us all wince while Carrow's
getting the equivalent of a punch in the face, all due to the people
involved and the context.


catlady1949::
I think that all this discussion about how curses are intended making the difference, and whether once wrong is always wrong was portrayed very accurately in this series of books.  I see the whole thing as very real world realistic.  That's the way human beings really are!  You can state all day long that you would die before you would do this or that, and you can maintain forever that you so wouldn't cast this or that spells due to what you decide is plain immoral etc., but if it came down to real life, you just might do what you say that you'd never do, or act in a way you say that you could absolutely never act.  We go back to Christian thinking and the Bible 
again.  Pilot asked Jesus "what is truth?"  Is truth a relative thing?  Are not some of us more wise and, therefore, more truthful?  Is what I think, the truth, even if I've been wrong, misinterpreting, etc?  I see this series as a whole both a good and bad commentary on human beings and their basic nature, and if we can rise above all of it, these books help us see what we should be trying to do, not debating the intent, disappointment, personality of J. K. Rowling!

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