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I mean, I tend towards black and white morality as a general principle, so... Ghavrel Send a noteboard - 27/06/2017 12:46:53 AM

If you're looking at shades of grey, you're not looking hard enough.

More seriously, Dahl and Rowling do an excellent job of showing that people are complicated, but I'm not at all sure that they are anything but steadfast in their concepts of right and wrong. Regardless of whatever sympathy we may have for Tom Riddle, he did bad things. Same with Snape and Malfoy and Dumbledore (and Harry and Ron at times).

"We feel safe when we read what we recognise, what does not challenge our way of thinking.... a steady acceptance of pre-arranged patterns leads to the inability to question what we are told."
~Camilla

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Contrarian & deconstructionist fashions - 26/06/2017 11:13:55 AM 708 Views
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I can't help but think a children's series is the wrong venue for this sort of protest. - 26/06/2017 05:52:52 PM 660 Views
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Claps *NM* - 27/06/2017 09:38:46 AM 394 Views
Maybe there's also room for different takes on morality in children's books? - 26/06/2017 07:58:21 PM 673 Views
I mean, I tend towards black and white morality as a general principle, so... - 27/06/2017 12:46:53 AM 561 Views
I got placed into Slytherin at Pottermore back in the day. - 26/06/2017 01:30:13 PM 711 Views
Re: I got placed into Slytherin at Pottermore back in the day. - 26/06/2017 05:43:34 PM 694 Views
Your replies do show a large streak of Slytherinesque views. I think you were mishoused. - 26/06/2017 06:06:09 PM 711 Views
Nah. I have vague glimmerings of a conscience. Disqualifying trait for House Sociopath. *NM* - 26/06/2017 06:08:44 PM 384 Views
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Yet you're studying for the bar so you can join Profession Sociopath. - 26/06/2017 07:56:47 PM 652 Views
Ugh. Don't remind me. *NM* - 26/06/2017 07:58:03 PM 370 Views
Meanwhile future "sociopath" - 28/06/2017 12:20:27 PM 560 Views
I'm going into public defense. Don't be too proud of yourself. - 28/06/2017 08:31:04 PM 657 Views
Just a self-righteous and masochistic form of sociopath. *NM* - 28/06/2017 10:05:18 PM 455 Views
But intensely charitable in its sociopathy! - 28/06/2017 10:54:14 PM 536 Views
Voldemort came from Slytherin. He was awesome. - 26/06/2017 01:50:46 PM 636 Views
*NM* - 26/06/2017 05:44:33 PM 402 Views
One of the rather few things in the series that I'd say Rowling got wrong... - 26/06/2017 07:32:43 PM 632 Views
I agree with most of this. - 27/06/2017 01:03:19 AM 705 Views
As a fellow "Never Slytherin"... - 27/06/2017 12:22:17 AM 889 Views
Re: As a fellow "Never Slytherin"... - 27/06/2017 01:15:15 AM 619 Views
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Anti-hype? - 27/06/2017 10:35:22 AM 633 Views
Ok, so, everybody beat me to it - 27/06/2017 10:45:33 AM 608 Views
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Re: Anti-hype? - 27/06/2017 03:24:12 PM 632 Views
Re: Anti-hype? - 28/06/2017 03:21:59 AM 481 Views
Re: Anti-hype? - 28/06/2017 01:14:09 PM 557 Views
Stop it, you are meant to enjoy the books not analyze them to death. - 28/06/2017 01:40:41 AM 547 Views
I don't watch anime. RWBY is safe. *NM* - 28/06/2017 03:12:56 AM 309 Views
Hun, that product is made in America it is not Anime - 28/06/2017 03:17:45 AM 555 Views
That's anime. I don't watch anime or its derivatives. But if you want me to criticize it... *NM* - 28/06/2017 03:23:01 AM 361 Views
Perhaps you should watch it - 28/06/2017 03:29:59 AM 499 Views

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