Post by tomcollins on Jan 1, 2012 9:10:51 GMT
Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
This is a slippery slope indeed; a challenge which every man and woman who stands up to confront the darkness must struggle with.
It is a knife's edge upon which I stand, my footing never sure as I struggle to follow yet the path of the righteous.
To pursue justice without becoming consumed by the darker passions is a challenge that has broken better men than I. And yet here I am, and here they are not.
I have often been severe in the course of my life towards others. That is just. I have done well. Now, if I were not severe towards myself, all the justice that I have done would become injustice.
I am forced to ask myself; am I still following the road I set out to pursue those many years ago. Is it for the innocent, and the protection of good that I struggle, or could it be that I enjoy the chase and the battle of wills and wits.
Could it even be that I have become driven by revenge instead of vengeance?
I do not know; that is a question for better men to puzzle over. After I am dead they can judge Alastor Moody as they will.
For now, I know only one thing for sure.
Where vice is...
...vengeance
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