Likeable Regulus.

[eggplant107]

No: HPFGUIDX 178029

"prep0strus" <prep0strus at ...> wrote:

> It is certainly possible that Regalus
> died a 'good person'. 

I think it is a virtual certainty he died a good man. Regulus died so
heroically trying to destroy one of Voldemort's horcruxes that it is
difficult to imagine him not dying a good person; unless that is his
crimes before he came to his senses were so huge, unless he was some
sort of a Death Eater  Dr. Mengele then I think his last act would
compensate for any past misdeeds he may have made. And I really doubt
Regulus was Dr. Mengele. 

> I think Narcissa is a good example
> she cared for her son, her family, 
> and, in the end, cared for them more
> than she cared for the Voldemort or 
> what he stood for. But if caring for
> her son did not come in conflict with
> Voldemort, I don't think she would 
> have turned on him. 

On this I think you are exactly correct. The best I can say for
Narcissa is that she is not quite as evil as your average Death Eater.

> Regalus caring for Kreacher does not
> negate the possibility that he still
> believed in pureblooded ideology

His relationship with Kreature although very interesting and touching
is not the defining characteristic of Regulus; it is the fact that he
gave his life to strike Voldemort in the spot it hurt him the most, in
his Horcrux.

And I don't give a hoot in hell what Regulus believed. I don't care
what thoughts were dancing around in his head. As long as he can do
astronomically good things like that let the man think what he wants
to think. I don't believe in thought crime.
 
> Here we simply disagree. I think
> motivations are both more interesting,
> and more important in the end. 

We most certainly do disagree! If you do the right thing for the wrong
reason it's still the right thing to do, and it you do the wrong thing
for the right reason it's still the wrong thing to do.

And we can never be certain of anybody's motivations, but we can be
certain of their actions. The ultimate question is, if Regulus had
never been born would the world have been a better place? I don't
believe it would have been.

Eggplant