If everything in my life ran like clockwork and everything was perfect, I would be sleeping now. But the world's a bit like a game of tetris, and sometimes you get that really stupid confusticated piece that's shaped like a z and gets in your way and messes everything up and you have to say, "It's all right, the game's not over yet, it'll work out."
Philosophical rot aside, the point is, I'm not asleep and I need to do something that will make me sleepy. What would actually make me sleepy would probably be reading, but I'm more in the mood for writing, which is more stimulating than sleepulating, but I've decided to pretend it isn't and do it anyway.
I think I've mentioned before that Prof. Peter Kreeft has a podcast episode on Ten Insights Into Evil in The Lord of The Rings. Whether I've mentioned that before or not, it's true, and here is a sum-up of it: http://www.peterkreeft.com/audio/04_insights-into-evil.htm.
I thought it seemed that the same insights were present in the Harry Potter books too, especially the last one.
1. Evil is Real:
"Dementors are among the foulest creatures that walk this earth. They infest the darkest, filthiest places, they glory in decay and despair, they drain peace, hope and happiness out of the air around them. Even muggles feel their presence, though they can't see them." -Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2. Evil is Immortal:
"Some say he died. Codswallop, in my opinion. Dunno if he had enough human in him left to die." -Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
3. Evil is Obvious:
"This time, I shall enter the fray myself, Harry Potter, and I shall find you." -Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
4. Knowledge is Not Always Good:
"Harry half wished that he hadn't asked what was under a dementor's hood, the answer had been so horrible..." -Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
5. Evil Defeats Itself:
"Voldemort himself created his own worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do!" -Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
6. Evil is Used for Good
"If Voldemort had not forced your mother to die for you, would he have given you a magical protection he could not penetrate? Of course not, Harry!" -Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
7. The Weapon of Sacrifice
"Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. Love as powerful as your mother's love for you leaves its own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever." -Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
8. The Weapon of Humility
"Those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well." -Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
9. The Weapon of Friendship
"That's right," said Luna encouragingly, as if they were back in the Room of Requirement, and this was simply spell practice for the D.A. "That's right, Harry. Think of something happy."
"Something happy?" he said, his voice cracked.
"We're all still here," she whispered, "we're still fighting, come on now..."
-Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
10. The Weapon of Words
"Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury and remedying it." -Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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