Challenge #141
According to McGonagall human nature is fixed. It's universal and unyielding. It can't be transfigured, charmed or changed. It is common to every person (wizard or muggle) down through the ages. But if that's true then how do you explain You-Know-Who and the people like him? Is evil an unchangeably intrinsic part of all of us?
Or is it more like the way Remus explains it, that natural selection equipped us with the fixed rules that constitute our human nature based on our environment. So evil isn't human nature, but bred into us as a product of warped on desire and ambition or any other aspect of human nature as seen through a fun house mirror.
If the reasons for why someone would kill, or turn their back on their family, the jealousies and desires that are common to everyone but that make some do unthinkable things while driving others to incredible sacrifice are all part of human nature then where is the variable that makes some heroes and others killers. Does wanting to kill Voldemort before he can hurt my family any more, before he can kill Harry, before he takes away the things that matter most to me make me more or less human? Is it human nature to want that kind of satisfaction or does that make me more like everyone I hate?
Human behavior is endlessly variable and diverse, environment is likewise which is why people are so different; but it is the similarities that puzzle me. It is the grey area that makes no sense.
Fandom: Harry Potter
Muse: Ron Weasley
Word Count: 240