I am about to rant/the hardest part

[kenneth9840]

No: HPFGUIDX 174847

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at ...> wrote:
 
> I don't have a problem that you (the general 'you')
> thought Harry shouldn't have used the 'Crucio'. I
> don't have a problem that you didn't like the 
> resolution of the Slytherin plot line. ...or that
> you didn't like this, that, or the other thing.
> 
> But I do have a problem when people start painting
> Harry as the most vile person to every walk the
> face of the earth. Or paint Slytherins as sweet
> innocent oppressed put-upon rosy cheek little 
> cherubs. [OK, I'm exaggerating a bit...OK, a lot.]
> 
> When Harry becomes vile and Slytherins become saints, 
> I think we've gone too far. [Admittedly, I'm 
> exaggerating again.]

Ken says:

This is the Potterverse we are talking about here, a world where 
wizards and witches with considerable magical powers exist, where the 
school for kids regularly has children in hospital with pretty severe 
complaints, and where occasionally they die, where witches die due to 
failed magical experiments, where sometimes magic is so 
uncontrollable people end up in St Mungo's or hidden away at home, 
where the aforesaid St Mungos is full of people with permanent 
magical conditions.

Dont foist the morality of Little Britain or Middle America on to 
such an environment.  Its a tough place, the Potterverse, a place 
where despite the best intentions of its occupants the Unforgivables 
are regularly threatened and often used and where other spells are 
used which have effects that in a non-magical world would be 
unacceptable.  Harry is a part of that world, not ours, with powers 
of that world.  Given that I am surprised he didn't use more of the 
Unforgiveables in DH, given the situations he found himself time 
after time.

Ask yourself.  Wouldn't you have welcomed the opportunity to Crucio 
Bellatrix, given half a chance?  

Ken Clark