 Made of Awesome | Ern-la the Best-wa | TZ's Apogee
"Wow... I'm so impressed by some of your arguments. I'm happy to see so many of you really thinking in this class. It sounds like we fundamentally agree that there were a variety of contributing factors to Riddle's descent into the Dark Arts. Riddle was acting out of revenge against the people he blamed for his sad and lonely childhood... Muggles. He was acting out of power-hunger and a desire to have control over the Wizarding World. He was also acting out of a desire to attain immortality, an unnatural act that is almost unattainable except through the use of the Dark Arts."
"Treamayne, you bring up an excellent point. Five points for Hufflepuff. Riddle may have been Slytherins heir, and he may have had some dark leanings due to that fact, but it was his own choice to follow that path. It was his own doing that caused him to become the "Dark Lord."
"Something that I'd like for you all to keep in mind is that the Dark Arts have an effect beyond that which is intended. They are "bad" not only because they are socially, morally, and legally reprehensible, but also because they leave a mark. Dark magic calls out to dark magic, causing what Muggles might term "addiction." The more one uses Dark magics, the more magic they user wants to use. And use of Dark magic changes a person. It stains the soul in a way."
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