I love the commentary about meaning and morality here, how Quirrel pushes back on Harry’s “obvious theorems” about morality by pointing out that in the end everyone simply does what they want to do, with, I think, the suggestion that a Dark Lord is simply someone who is really good at getting what he wants (and a lot of ambiguity about whether this is actually a good way to act).
And of course the pervasive strangeness of the fact that this conversation is occurring between rationalist wizards in a HP fan fiction just makes it even better...
I love the commentary about meaning and morality here, how Quirrel pushes back on Harry’s “obvious theorems” about morality by pointing out that in the end everyone simply does what they want to do, with, I think, the suggestion that a Dark Lord is simply someone who is really good at getting what he wants (and a lot of ambiguity about whether this is actually a good way to act).
And of course the pervasive strangeness of the fact that this conversation is occurring between rationalist wizards in a HP fan fiction just makes it even better...