Perjury, Dumbledore, and Right v Easy once Again (Re: Percy)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 166192

Lupinlore:
> The point is that right and easy do not have clear points of
> reference, 

Pippin:
Exactly. Right versus easy is a personal yardstick, a moral
reality check. It isn't to be used to derive moral standards but
to remind us to check our behavior against them. If something
is difficult for us, we're going to be looking for reasons not to
do it, and any moral objections there might be are likely to
surface. But if it's easy, then there's a danger of taking our
moral right to do it for granted. 

Lying was clearly difficult for Mrs. Figg. She won't have decided
to do so lightly. But Harry often lies without a second thought,
and only begins to feel uncomfortable  after the fact, when he 
starts thinking he might get caught. 

Submitting to authority is  easy for Percy, not at all easy for Sirius.
So Percy risks  taking the morality of submission for granted,
but he is not likely to rebel with no moral justification.
For Sirius, the situation is reversed.

Pippin