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Giselle Barrington
Slytherin Seventh Year
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Teagan Kensington
Slytherin Second Year
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Arienne Morgenstern
Hufflepuff Fifth Year
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Simone Wild
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Originally Posted by Harmonizer  Samson's attention span was slowly dwindling, as the ideas became more and more redundant, only with each student opposing each other with slightly varying ideas. Any minute now... he was going to... fall... asle...
Euthanasia?
His head perked up and he cocked an eyebrow. How intriguing that someone should bring up such a topic. "Uh," he started, raising a finger as he looked at the Gryffindor, "Euthanasia, I think, is more an issue of morality and human rights than anything else. I agree that it's a different thing, as opposed to actually wanting to murder someone. So I suppose, other than the intent of performing dark magic, the situation has to fit. Wanting to actually dominate, for example." Usually, Samson didn't like being this serious, but hey, it was a brain-jogger (even when jogging his brain wasn't exactly his favorite thing to do).
"Besides, I've yet to hear of a wizard dying of mercy killing, with the exception of Lord Voldemort, of course, whom I think killed people off because he pitied them for being poor and powerless and beneath him. Yeah." He shrugged and grinned sheepishly. Adrienne found a little bit of a hole in the logic of her fellow Ravenclaw, even though she felt a little odd challenging someone who she was fairly certain was oldre than her, notto mention was even taller than pretty much all the males she personally knew, both in her family and outside. But either way, she couldn't resist commenting. "So you think the people Lord Voldemort killed qualify as mercy killings? Don't most of the stories about him point out that the one thing he never felt, until possibly the end, was remorse? I mean, I agree that he saw the people he murdered as beneath him. As far as I know, he used people until they weren't of value to him anymore, then he discarded them like trash. Which I think is a good mark of a true Dark wizard, however we want to define one. They go after power, killing, maiming, whatever else, with no regard for other people's feelings. Or their lives, for that matter. Normal people, wizards or not, feel guilt over killing things, especially people. Unless they're psychopaths, which I guess in a way, you could qualify true Dark wizards as such." And she felt like she was rambling again, but she knew she had at least one more point to make.
"In any case, I think it's not so much a matter of different types of Dark wizards. It's more like there's a hierarchy in their little society. Because they certainly don't consider themselves really as part of the Wizarding world as a whole. But there's lesser 'dark' wizards, who are probably more in it as followers of the true Dark wizards, who seem to be willing to do anything in the pursuit of power, especially over other people. And they don't really seem to feel the same things that all the rest of us feel, like remorse, concern over others . . ." She bit her tongue, purposefully stopping herself before she got completely annoying. She was starting to feel like once she got started, it was hard to stop, and she actually had never thought she'd had this many opinions on dark wizards. Hmm.
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