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[May. 8th, 2009|05:13 pm] |
I really ought to be writing any one of the four papers I have due next week instead of reading very old meta, but it was so wonderful to come across this old gem:
See, I'm a ceremonial magician, and I don't believe in "Dark Magick". Magick is good or evil in RL or in fantasy novels depending on what you do with it. [...]
This is why, in HoIF, [Dumbledore] writes off Juliana. Because she will never, ever be loyal to him even though she wants to do good and serves Tom out of a sincere belief that he is good.
And this is why, in canon, he writes off the entire house of Slytherin except Snape, and does nothing to change their view of the world. Because no matter whether they are good or evil in the end, they will never be his creatures.
And I loathe him for that.
And I think this is evil. No matter whether his ultimate cause is good or not.
As a true-sorted Slytherin, I'm not going to say that the ends never justify the means, but what I will say is that if the means you have to use to get the end destroy or invalidate the end you are trying to reach, your priorities and your cost-benefit ratio are ultimately screwy. |
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I.. bzuh?
I know some Slytherfen like to moan about this idea that Dumbledore's already written off the Slytherins, but I think the meta's analysis of Dumbledore's motives is a bit far-fetched.
The original meta was much more reasonable; this is thankfully just a comment on it.
Ah. I googled and found it in hp_essays. I see ataniell93 is made of special. :P
I love how poorly they 'shopped it out, too! And how hideous it still is even when they did that. | |
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