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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 3683201" data-attributes="member: 3400">For pretty most of the Order of the Phoenix, Weasleys, non-Slytherin students we actually know anything about, I don't see much call for calling any of them anything but good. You can still be a bit rough and tumble as Sirius and James were as youths and as Fred and George are. Playing jokes, even the occasional cruel one, isn't a mark of evil or serious deviation from the general course of goodness. It's a function of maturity. It may, however, be a mark of philosophy.So, I'd be putting James Potter, Sirius Black, Fred Weasley, and George Weasley down as CG. None of them set much store by rules, but none of them, in the main, are bad people.Percy Weasley and Severus Snape both come closest, of the main "good" characters, to not actually being good. Percy has a lot of LN tendencies, but I still think he's more good than not. He just took a while to remember it.Snape has, I think, too much baggage to really be good. He's on the side of good overall, but he's not a good person. LN sounds fine enough for him.Hagrid is someone I would definitely put down as CG. He cares little for rules over all and his devotion is to individuals (like Dumbledore) rather than to institutions and structures.Hermione, despite being a rule breaker, is LG. Her rule-breaking is typically because the rule is clearly bad or the circumstances particularly serious. Her natural inclination is, and always has been, to follow the rules, to work within the system until the system becomes so broken it must be reformed from without.Ron does not seem to have a particular devotion to either rules and structure nor personal freedom and choice. And in the absence of much information on Ginny, Bill, and Charlie and their personal philosophies, it's easy enough to see them as NG. I'd say the same for Arthur, who has some rebelliousness to him and his dubious hobbies.Harry could fit in as CG quite well. He has little devotion to rules compared to his own personal convictions. He could, arguably, fit in as NG either depending on the strength of  his commitment to freedom and personal choices compared to desire to chart a more middle course. While either would work OK, I'm more inclined to put him in the CG pigeon-hole simply because he's following his own moral compass so often rather than relying on rules or institutional ethics.Fudge, I'd put in the LN category. More devoted to office than doing the right thing.Umbridge, LE. A very model of structured, organized evil.Voldemort, CE. It's personal strength and power that matters to him. He rules by personal strength and terror. The organization has no live or ethic of its own, it's all about him.Rita Skeeter. She's got a selfish streak, cruel and mean spirited. She'll take anyone down, slander anyone to get ahead. She's just not brutal and violent. NE.</blockquote>

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