psychopath / Kingsley / education for wizarding students

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 184241

Catlady:
> 
> It didn't force LV to become a murderer, but it prevented him from
> noticing or comprehending that murder is evil, thus being a reason
> other than risk of getting caught and being punished for sublimating
> on poor animals. Being unable to feel or care how his victims might
> feel about being murdered and how their survivors might feel about
it, how would he know it was evil?

Pippin:
He may not know what evil is, but he knows what's bad. He tells
Dumbledore that he can make "bad things" happen to people if he wants to. 

Riddle doesn't feel moral revulsion at doing bad things, nor moral
well-being when he does good ones, but he knows which is which,
doubtless from observing other people's reactions. 
 
If he'd spent his earliest years among people who were able to detect
and punish his wrongdoing,  he might have internalized his fear of
punishment as he internalized his fear of death. He'd still have been
a dangerous man, but he might not have embarked on a career of
wholesale killing that was certain to turn most of wizarding kind
against him. 

BTW, his wickedness cannot entirely be attributed to a defect in his
brain or his blood, since he continued to be wicked when he was
reduced to a brainless, bloodless, bodiless vapor. 

> Carol wrote in
> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/184179>:
> Hogwarts itself certainly provides inadequate preparation for
> university-level classes in literature, foreign languages, math, the
> sciences, and Muggle history, to name only those subjects that come
> immediately to my mind. >>

Pippin:
Since Harry never took Muggle studies, we don't know what's covered in
that course. Arthur certainly doesn't inspire much confidence, but it
may be that eventually, under Dumbledore's headmastership, the subject
was taken, and taught, more seriously.

Pippin