Harry using Crucio (was: Code of the Playground)

[eggplant107]

No: HPFGUIDX 174641

 "va32h" <va32h at ...> wrote:

> I have NO PROBLEM with JKR choosing
> to show Harry USING Crucio. I am 
> disgusted with her choice to have
> him ENJOY it

The part of your post that confuses me is that you are not disgusted
with Harry you are disgusted with JKR, you are disgusted with a writer
for pointing out a very real danger that can occur if you fight evil
too intensely for too long. That Harry could experience what he has
and done nothing worse than aim one Crucio at a monster and be grumpy
with his friends a few times is remarkable. I'm not proud of it but I
really think if I'd endured one tenth of what Harry had I would not be
a very nice man, as a matter of fact I think I would be able to give
Hannibal Lecter a run for his money. But then, Harry Potter is a
better man than me.
 
A previous poster gave a quote from Nietzsche thinking it bolstered
her position when actually it bolstered mine. If your soldier husband
doesn't know what I or Nietzsche are talking about then he is an even
better man than Harry Potter. 

"He who fights monsters should be careful lest he thereby becomes a
monster.  And if thou gaze long into the abyss, the abyss will also
gaze into thee." 

Eggplant Gellert Grindelwald