Unforgivables - from a different angle

[Kenneth Clark]

No: HPFGUIDX 174639

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, career advisor <aceworker at ...> 
wrote:
  
>   If the idea is that she should teach people to be saints, the 
answer I'll give to that is that the reason most saints end up being 
martyrs is that they don't fight back. JKR is not trying to teach her 
readers to be Martyrs, but she is trying to teach them to be 
courageous and yes sometimes you have to do evil to fight evil and 
one of the things that makes evil evil is that it makes good people, 
do lesser evil to combat it. As I have Draco say to Pansy in one of 
my fanfics: 'To worry about your rights (or the rights of others) 
when your life is at stake is a philosophy that will leave you 
dead.'    

Ken says:

Exactly.  Would we berate the concentration camp inmates who escaped 
for killing the SS guards on the way out?

This is war and war consists of eliminating the opposition in the 
most effective way possible before they eliminate you.  Personally I 
would have executed Bellatrix etc while they were still in Azkhaban 
to ensure that they could not escape and do to me what they had 
already done to countless others - Neville's parents included.

But I would not terms such acts "evil"  Things and people are not 
good or evil and we must remember that one persons evil is anothers 
courageous. Some people consider Bush as big a terrorist as bin 
Laden, in fact many consider the USA as the terrorist nation par 
excellence.  Motes and beams.

Ken