Actually, isn't precisely that what happens in our teen years? I remember doing a lot of stupid things, just because others were doing them, too. The worst thing was that I knew all along that they were not very smart actions, though somehow, in a rather distorted and convoluted way, they seemed to be 'cool' at that time, :
I do think that's what normally happens, though I think of it more as a dulling of conscience rather than the total loss of it. With Rowling and her secondary characters, it is written from a distance, so that sometimes their decisions and actions when compared to previous ones seem too drastically different. I don't get that "I'm-totally-wrong-but-I'm -going-to-do- it-anyways", followed in the worst cases with "shit-that-was-the-wrong-thing-to-do-and-I'm - an-asshole" type struggle in some very important cases with Rowling's writing.
I do some of the characters' most egregious actions come back into play somehow. I absolutely loved everything to do with Draco in HBP, and especially his use of the banishing closet.
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Date: 2007-03-12 11:23 pm (UTC)I do think that's what normally happens, though I think of it more as a dulling of conscience rather than the total loss of it. With Rowling and her secondary characters, it is written from a distance, so that sometimes their decisions and actions when compared to previous ones seem too drastically different. I don't get that "I'm-totally-wrong-but-I'm -going-to-do- it-anyways", followed in the worst cases with "shit-that-was-the-wrong-thing-to-do-and-I'm - an-asshole" type struggle in some very important cases with Rowling's writing.
I do some of the characters' most egregious actions come back into play somehow. I absolutely loved everything to do with Draco in HBP, and especially his use of the banishing closet.