 Wowza!
There seemed to be some slight disagreement on certain things but Levi was unconcerned with them all. The question at hand proved to be more interesting; it was tricky because the creatures were in, many ways, something like distant relatives. All human beings at some point or another, but the differences lay on how their postmortem nature came to be.
Inferis with dark magic, zombies presumably with an infection and mummies were a result of a curse.
"Inferi are wholly controlled by dark magic, so we can assume then that free will is not option. Zombies are, supposedly, a result of an infection, either by a bite or a scratch." If he was getting his muggle mythology right, anyway. For someone whose father was a muggleborn, Levi was relatively uninterested on what the muggle world had to offer beyond books and graphic novels.
Both of which he enjoyed plenty. "Either way--assumptions aren't the best, but if the infection in question is so brutal, I don't think it'd be that mad to assume it spreads all the way to the pers--creature's brain, thus making them slave to their instincts and effectively ending what makes us all human beings; our ability to think and feel and decide." To varying degrees, at least.
And then there were the mummies. "Mummies are cursed, are they not? Ancient magic is complex, but my understanding is that these curses are all supposed to be a punishment." He scratched the back of his neck. Whether or not the punishment was deserved was another matter entirely and probably more of a subject for one of Professor Newton's classes. "And as terrible as it sounds, no punishment is worth anyone's time as long as the punished person in question can feel it. Even if the person--or mummy, I suppose--has to endure it for all of eternity." He added a one shoulder shrug as if to lessen the weight of his words. Human beings always found ways to be terrible; this was not news. It'd been happening since the beginning of life itself. This would have been the sort of thought process that'd make him feel grim, but Levi was too focused on giving his input to care. ""So, ultimately, I think their differences comes down to just how sentient they are--or aren't." Something difficult to achieve, surely, given the status they shared as creatures part of the undead family, but. "And mummies stand out the most because they most likely have vestiges of what once was--or who they were, rather. There must be a reason why they don't ever stray far from their tombs--other than the curse itself, of course."
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