DH reread CH 12

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No: HPFGUIDX 186438

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> wrote:
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> Up to the moment when Dumbledore confesses, JKR doesn't tell us in DH when  her good characters are doing bad things. She wants us to choose what is right, being critical of people whom we would like to admire, rather than what is easy,  supposing that whatever the good guys do must be okay. But as you said, the cruciatus curse is so obviously wrong that unless you have a different set of moral standards for fictional people than for real ones, it would be very hard to approve of it.


Alla:

This was lovely post Pippin and I do not really disagree with anything you wrote including what I snipped. 

But the reason I brought this incident here is not to decide what I think about it, but because I was sort of surprised at my reactions. I am sure you know that while  for example I certainly agree that Harry's Cruciatus is wrong, I really find it completely excusable( again let me repeat - excusable, not right). There are also several other incidents throughout the books that I completely excuse and still I never got the impression that I consider Harry and Co to be doing only good things, so I was thinking, eh, where are those things that I want to slap them for? I know they must be there somewhere.

And this one shocked me **badly**, just as I discovered on the reread that Harry and Ginny good bye scene shocked me in a good way. I mean, I remembered it, but again, certainly do not remember having any strong reaction one way or another, you know?

And as I said, I think I figured out that I am excusing the reaction to provocation, you know and am more angry as to things being done to people who did nothing, if that makes sense?

But that again, I think goes back to your paragraph that I left unsnipped, I mean things are just as bad, provocation or not, it is just easier for the reader (me only) to go with the provocation and excuse it? Or not, I do not know, just thinking out loud.

Alla