Tell Me, What Makes Your Side the \'Light\' Side?
Tell Me, What Makes Your Side the 'Light' Side?
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ltr;unicode-bidi:embed\'>FallenAngel wrote Harry\'s responce to this story, called \"I\'m Ready...Are You?\". The link: http://www.adult-fanfiction.org/aff/story.php?no=544199811 Enjoy!
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not making money off of this. I\'m just an altruist with a thirst for reviews.
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ltr;unicode-bidi:embed\'>Tell Me, What Makes Your Side the \'Light\' Side?
ltr;unicode-bidi:embed\'>"Tell me, what makes your side the \'Light\' side?
ltr;unicode-bidi:embed\'>It\'s all about power and control. Each side has a world
view and is trying to make the dominant structures of society conform to that
world view.
ltr;unicode-bidi:embed\'>Yes, the \'Dark\' side is the one to attack most of the
time. But that is true about any movement going against the established order –
they have to be the active ones. And it doesn\'t matter which order it is. The
established order isn\'t \'right\' just by the fact that it\'s the ruling one.
ltr;unicode-bidi:embed\'>My father didn\'t just follow a madman, it wasn\'t even
about Voldemort. My father fought for a cause he believed in.
a cause he believed in? What makes my father a victimizer and your father the
victim? Did your parents not ever kill in the name of the cause they believed
in? Were they perfect people, who never did any harm to anyone?
ltr;unicode-bidi:embed\'>What makes your side the \'right\' side? Both sides kill
and harm, both sides believe in what they are fighting for. So the \'dark\' side
kills more. (Though, does it? Would you know? Where do you get the headcount
from?)
ltr;unicode-bidi:embed\'>Does your side not make widows, widowers, orphans? Go
into the Slytherin common room, see if you can\'t find a child
side. Go to the Ravenclaws and the
(Were there no smart or loyal or brave fighting for our cause?). It\'s not a
popular thing to admit to, and you don\'t hear about it as much as you hear of
the \'victims\' on the \'Light\' side, but there are enough of them. Poor Potter
with his dead parents… are you the only orphan in this
school? Are there only orphans on your side?
ltr;unicode-bidi:embed\'>Yes, you kill less. You apprehend and bring fourth
charges, and judge rebels within a system that upholds the established order.
And you give them the kiss, put them in Azkaban. How humane. You leave their
children to visit them and see the soulless bodies of their loved ones, time
and again, as they grow up. How generous you must feel.
ltr;unicode-bidi:embed\'>Your side must thank the Dark Lord for existing,
Potter. If he weren\'t so clearly \'Dark\' and didn\'t inspire so much fear, what
would your side do? If he didn’t call himself Voldemort, and if he didn\'t
choose a mark with a skull and a snake, what would you do? Who spread the tale
that his name must be feared? Your side needs this fear, Potter. Stop telling
people to use his name. You need their fear of it, or they might start thinking
about the ideology he offers, and they might want to decide for themselves
whether to follow. If he wasn\'t the big bad monster could your side convince
the world that the cause is false? But, I\'m sorry for asking, of course it
could. Where do you get your information from Potter? How do you know who is
evil?
ltr;unicode-bidi:embed\'>Yes, the purebloods know more of the Dark Arts. Simply
because it\'s not a subject taught in the schools, and thus knowledge of it
would pass through family, together with the family recipes for the common
cold. And of course the mudbloods and
it? Unless they go seeking for it specifically.
ltr;unicode-bidi:embed\'>The pureblood families produce more wizards than the
the rule. Why should young pureblood wizards, of which there are much more
every year than of muggle born wizards, learn things in the pace of those who
only discovered magic at eleven years? Why the benefit of the majority must be
disregarded in favor of the minority? Let them have a separate school. Why must
I learn less than I can because of them? Why do we not study magic from, say, age
6? Is it not because we are waiting for the mudbloods
to grow up enough to leave their parents and to learn how to keep their mouths
shut about magic, so as to not give us away? Why do we have Muggle Studies but
not Wizarding Culture studies for mudbloods?
Why is the History of the Wizarding World taught by
the most boring professor in school, a dead one? What a fitting metaphor that
is.
ltr;unicode-bidi:embed\'>Why is it bad to want to change that, but perfectly
\'good\' to want to keep it that way?
ltr;unicode-bidi:embed\'>The muggles persecuted
wizards for ages, they still can, and yet there is no mention of it in Muggle
Studies, it\'s not a popular topic for discussion.
ltr;unicode-bidi:embed\'>I\'m tired of all this righteousness around. The labels
are just words used to rile people up. There is no \'Light\' here. There are the
rulers who call themselves \'The Light\', and the rebels who are designated the
title of \'The Dark\'. And history is written by those in power. That is what
made Grindelwald a dark wizard. If he won,
Dumbledore\'s name would be synonymous with Darkness. And the new rebels would
praise his name and be called \'Dark\'.
ltr;unicode-bidi:embed\'>So just stop this bullshit Potter. There are two sides,
one rules, the other wants to. Two ideologies, one
rules, one wants to. And it\'s all about winning. That. Is.
It.
ltr;unicode-bidi:embed\'>Those on the loosing side will suffer, die, and be
persecuted, no matter which side wins."
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ltr;unicode-bidi:embed\'>Well, was it convincing? (And please remember the distinction between the author\'s opinion and the character\'s words.)
Reviews would mean a lot! :-)