On lying and cheating

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 165379

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Magpie" <belviso at ...> wrote:

Valky:
> > Whats easy about accepting at the age of
> > sixteen that the weight of the world rests on you getting one moment
> > in your life perfect even if its your last, whats easy about knowing
> > that you are marching towards an early death where what you achieve as
> > a sixteen year old in your academic career is just so profoundly
> > academic as to feel like a complete waste of time?
> 
> Magpie:
> So maybe he should quit school! Lots of teenagers do, when they think 
> academics is a waste of time. I just don't understand this attitude at 
> all--what does Harry's bad situation in life have to do with him giving 
> himself unfair advantages in school? He's approaching his sixth year like 
> any other student and getting the same enjoyment out of his repuation as any 
> other student would. It seems like you're trying to argue that since Harry 
> has been forced into a life that isn't easy, easy-versus-right no longer 
> applies to him.

Geoff:
Picking up along the lines of Valky's reply, which is the lesser of two 
evils? Coping with an academic situation which, in the short term, 
seems pointless but relatively "comfortable" or going back to the 
neglect and verbal abuse of Privet Drive? Would there, hypothetically, 
be other alternatives?