Dark Magic WAS: Re:help with JKR quote/ Children's reactions

[potioncat]

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> lizzyben:
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 What IS consistent, IMO, is that jinxes,
> hexes, & curses have always been presented as dark magic (both on her
> website & in canon). Which fits in nicely w/a general scheme of "dark
> magic" as violent, offensive or combative spells. And this means that
> the good guys use dark magic often throughout the series. 


Potioncat:

I agree.

As muddled as Dark Magic was before DH, it's much worse now. There's at 
least one quote from JKR that says she had Harry perform the Cruciatus 
to show that he could do so and later chose not to, rather than that he 
could not perform the magic at all.

To me this is a lot like drug use in RL. Most of us would agree that 
certain street drugs are wrong and dangerous (crack, cocaine) we might 
start to disagree about Pot, tobacco, coffee. We would agree that 
prescription narcotics have an important role to play in healing, yet 
the mis-use of those medications is either immoral or an illness in 
itself. We probably don't all agree there.

Potioncat(You should have heard the discussion between my teens and me 
over whether House or the Narcotics Cop should be considered the hero 
of the story on that TV show.)