Fly on the wall commentator

[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 174985

Lisa:

> Oh, I think there's a difference between enjoying 
> doing something like, and feeling satisfaction.

houyhnhnm:

Please explain what you mean by the difference between 
"enjoying" and "feeling satisfaction." .  

"Feeling satisfaction" has to be something a little
more savage than righteous anger, at least according 
to Bellatrix.

Perhaps not as savage as Voldemort's "surge of vicious 
anger" while torturing Ollivander (Scholastic, 85). More 
like Voldemort's feelings when he's "gliding along, that 
sense of purpose and power and rightness in him that he 
always knew on these occasions . . . Not anger . . . that 
was for weaker souls than he . . . but triumph, yes . . ." (343)

I don't see how your "feeling satisfaction" at causing 
someone else's pain can be an emotion that isn't Dark.  
If a monster can feel a "sense of purpose and power and 
*rightness*" when he goes to kill, then clearly these 
feelings are not reliable signposts to tell us we're 
on the right road.