CHAPDISC: DH10, Kreacher's Tale

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 180107


> 
> a_svirn:
> No, he doesn't. He treats Kreacher with kindness, yes. But it is 
> impossible to treat your own slave with respect. The fact that you 
> own him or her is already somewhat disrespectful, wouldn't you say? 

Pippin:
I can't answer for Mike, obviously, but...
Disrespectful of what? Kreacher's godgiven right to be a free being?
But it wasn't Harry who robbed Kreacher of his ability to exercise that
right. Kreacher is no more capable of being his own master than the
Longbottoms. He, like them, can have the respect of not being despised
for his condition, which he did not choose. 

> a_svirn:
> Out of all of the above only three count as decent, though. 
> Definitely not enough to redeem the House. I mean, Sodom and Gomorrah 
> could probably boast a couple of righteous people between them. But 
> it simply wasn't enough. (And I am not sure that Slughorn Snape and 
> Regulus Black could count as righteous. Repentant sinners, more 
> like.) 

Pippin:
The repentant sinner *is* a righteous person in Western thought
and more to be valued than one who never strayed.
But Harry disliked Slytherins as a class and canon tells us so -- he
considers it his duty to hate Blaise Zabini on sight for no other reason.


Pippin