Wands and Wizards...Again

[kempermentor]

No: HPFGUIDX 183611

> Steve:
> Oddly, or perhaps not so oddly, I disagree. I've always 
> thought one of the great attributes of the Harry Potter books
> is that they are not preachy and don't offer clear moral
> determinations. 

Kemper now:
They are preachy. Dark Arts bad.  Love good.  Cowardice bad.  Courage
good.  
But those are 'duhs', when it came to torture and slavery... well,
torture was bad for the first six books  and slavery was bad in
two-four, but then in the DH: torture ok and slavery ok.

But, yeah, the books aren't as preachy as the Narnia books... and
thank God for that.


> bboyminn:
> Back to some earlier aspects, I never said I /excused/ Harry.
> I said I understood his actions under the circumstances. In
> war you need to be hard, sometimes even heartless. 

Kemper now:
I disagree.  That's like saying it's okay to torture because our side
gets tortured.  How are we better than our enemy if we do the same?

Kemper