wah. hehehe i feel like saying, "well, i feel like i know you enough to tell that you are a splendid person".
Well, there it's okay because I am a splendid person.:D
I tend to think my refraining from judgement has to do with my hating being wrong. So if somebody asks me what I think of someone when I've just met them I don't want to go on record with an opinion in case it turns out I change my mind!
this whole labeling thing sucks ass.
Exactly. It makes one wonder why one would GO to a Draco panel if it's as simple as that. What do you get from the character that way? I mean yeah, I can pat myself on the back knowing I'm definitely a better person than this kid but that's setting the bar pretty damn low. This is what the story seems to be telling me too. My reading of the books is so influenced by fandom though, too. Maybe if I just read them in a vacuum I would think everybody read the story and worried the good guys were more like the bad guys then they thought! Do I really need to read five books and thousands of pages to know that genocide is bad?
I think this is partly why i don't take it as much of a compliment when people call me nice
I know what you mean. In The Innocents there's even a line where the housekeeper says "You can't say the children haven't been good," and Miss Giddens replies, "But they haven't been good. Merely easy to live with." It really makes you think about what exactly it means to be "good." Snape is not easy to live with, but to me he seems like the he's probably the character with the most clear understanding of what is wrong about Voldemort because he had to make a conscious choice to reject him.
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Date: 2003-08-25 02:14 pm (UTC)Well, there it's okay because I am a splendid person.:D
I tend to think my refraining from judgement has to do with my hating being wrong. So if somebody asks me what I think of someone when I've just met them I don't want to go on record with an opinion in case it turns out I change my mind!
this whole labeling thing sucks ass.
Exactly. It makes one wonder why one would GO to a Draco panel if it's as simple as that. What do you get from the character that way? I mean yeah, I can pat myself on the back knowing I'm definitely a better person than this kid but that's setting the bar pretty damn low. This is what the story seems to be telling me too. My reading of the books is so influenced by fandom though, too. Maybe if I just read them in a vacuum I would think everybody read the story and worried the good guys were more like the bad guys then they thought! Do I really need to read five books and thousands of pages to know that genocide is bad?
I think this is partly why i don't take it as much of a compliment when people call me nice
I know what you mean. In The Innocents there's even a line where the housekeeper says "You can't say the children haven't been good," and Miss Giddens replies, "But they haven't been good. Merely easy to live with." It really makes you think about what exactly it means to be "good." Snape is not easy to live with, but to me he seems like the he's probably the character with the most clear understanding of what is wrong about Voldemort because he had to make a conscious choice to reject him.