Lack of re-examination (was:Re: Secrets (Long) OLD POST REPOST)

[jkoney65]

No: HPFGUIDX 186559

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> wrote:
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> Betsy_Hp 
> > But as far as Harry not re-examining so that I'd be forced to, I'm not made squirmy about it on *my* account.  It's Harry that I'm bothered about.  Yes, I *do* expect him to have a "wow I should have known" moment.  Because he gleefully watched an adult mistreat a schoolboy. 
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> Pippin:
> Sorry, but where is this gleefulness in canon? *Ron* is gleeful. Hermione is indignant. The narrator doesn't tell us how Harry felt. It's certainly easy to imagine that he felt gleeful, but in that case we can imagine his later chagrin as well. More likely he didn't know how he felt, except intensely curious about "Moody".
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jkoney:
I just don't see Harry looking back and feeling bad about this. Malfoy had just sent a curse at Harry. I see Harry at the time happy that Malfoy got caught and punished. Later on, I see him thinking how ironic that a DE punished a junior DE.

> Pippin:
> I called it a "little fictional mythology" because the people who are seriously dealing with evil in our society don't divide the world into good guys and bad guys. IMO that's not the way that modern philosophy and theologians and human behavior experts talk about evil. 
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> I love, love, love Tolkien. But the only moral responsibility for evil that a good guy has in Tolkien is not to seek power above his station. That's fine if you believe in the feudal system, and maybe Tolkien did. But I think JKR is trying to get us to consider that maybe we believe other things now.
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jkoney:
I'm not sure what you are saying about Tolkien.