I would fight the Dark Arts because it's evil and it is useed to hurt people and the good side helps people.

i agree with streams of silver... with the Dark Arts you must understand them before you can fight against them... Sure they are bad but so long as you dont use them in order to gain something for yourslef then i do not think that they are so bad.... i think that they are bad if you use them incorrectly.

The Dark Arts, much like anything else, can be a tool--used for whatever purpose its user wishes. It is true though that most of the Dark Arts spells are sinister or dangerous in nature, and it is hard to understand how such Dark spells can be used for good. The truth is, the end doesn't justify the means, and if someone is on the 'good' side they shouldn't be using Dark spells too often. However, many of the so-called 'good' spells can be used for evil.

Only people can be evil--spells cannot be evil. Evil people can use ANY spell to fulfill their evil deeds, not necessarily just the Dark Arts.

You can say that Avada Kedavra for example is evil, no? Because it kills. However, death is not evil. Murder, yes murder is evil. So the fact that Avada Kedavra exists? That is not evil. But if someone uses Avada Kedavra to kill an innocent person, than they are evil.

And defensive spells, spells that are supposedly on the 'good' side can kill too, if the person casting the spell is trying to kill. If you levitate someone off a balcony and then let go, you've attempted murder using a fairly simple, 'good' spell.

There are many good points in using the dark arts for example the feeling of power and the feeling of satisfactory. The down side may be that you could become endorsed so much into the dark arts that they take over you.



(sorry I shall edit this when I get in I have not finished but the crazy teacher is screaming at me to get of so...)

I myself would only want to learn what I needed to counter-act the Dark Arts but I can see their appeal. Look at most of the wizards that joined Voldemort- they are people seeking power. Unhappy with their current positions they look to the Dark Arts for ways to launch them into postions of power and money, the faster the better. They are not people who like following rules, and although they obey Voldemort it is only out of fear. Had Lord Voldemort won control he would constantly have to defend his role as leader. Lucious Malfoy, for instance, would eventually bridle under the Dark Lord harsh reign. I believe that the Dark Arts calls to people who by and large see themselves as better than others, and they often seek to use the Dark Arts to increase their powers over people. Take Snape and his love of the Dark Arts. Snape as a child was intelligent and yet he was a social outcast. The fact that he was a superior wizared than those that tormented him made him an easy conver to the Death Eaters. Dark Arts are difficult to master- presenting a challenge to a skilled wizard, but once learned they can give you the power to defeat anyone that ever dared look down upon you.

While I understand all these draws of the Dark Arts, I myself see them as dangerous and cowardly spells. But in order to know your enemy you must understand what makes them who they are. A thorough knowledge of the Dark Arts is necessary in order to defend yourself, but one must be careful to not be tempted to use them for evil.

in agree with Rigby and streams of silver... there is no such thing as a bad spell... its the user who is bad.... and that the 'Dark Arts calls to people who by and large see themselves as better than others, and they often seek to use the Dark Arts to increase their powers over people' as Rigby had said..... I belive that if Snape wasnt consumed by the Dark Arts and had a better [ast then he would have been a much nicer person.

i would learn how to defend myself from the dark arts and how to fight them becuase there bad and there very evil and they dangerous and could kill someone and i would fight them and destroy them if i could.

Many feel the same way as you hermionegrwhp. But I dont really think that the spells themselves are dabgerous like streams of silver had said... its the caster that it bad not the spell

I would fight the dark arts and the dark wizards because dark wizard or dark spell it's still bad

The subjectivity of one's view upon what they define as good and its disparity from what they define as evil will perpetuate such a moot yet fascinating discussion. Clearly, a question that truly must be pondered revolves around the synonymous use of "dark" and "bad." Just because something is dark, does that necessarily make it bad? Certainly, some "dark magic" can be used for dreadful and terrifying things, but in some instances "dark" can be used with good intention. For instance, the Polyjuice Potion, a potion derived from the darkest of potions, can be used to obtain information from a foe and thus defeat this foe. Utilizing an element of considerable "dark" power actually, in the end, may help those with good intentions prevail. In turn, one could use clean magic of "Wingardium Leviosa" to lift a giant piano over someone's head and drop it to murder them.

The sole difference between dark and light magic truly depends on the source from which a spell may take its energy as well as the intention by the caster of the spell. Except, of course, for the Unforgivable Curses, many Dark Arts may be used with perfectly good intention. Thus, it truly depends on which side the caster chooses to fight.

As a wizard, I would choose to fight those with intentions to destroy others. As a wizarding society, we and we together have worked so hard to create something priceless and worthwhile, and those wishing to destroy so much in order to gain maximum power truly oppose everything for which we have worked.

Kat does got a good point there..... You can make the spells that everyone think are harmless deadly

I would still fight the dark wizard even if it was a simple spell.

well even the most simplist spells can do huge things