Kurumi sat silently as her classmates discussed and, at times, got in heated debates about the subject at hand. Having gone through this discussion the previous three terms at Hogwarts, the fourth year decided that sitting and taking notes on the discussion was more up her alley this term – especially so as to give the first years more time to answer since they were an unusually eager bunch this term.

A few phrases were thrown out here and there about the Dark Arts that got the cogs in her head turning a bit and she wasn’t entirely sure if someone had already voiced this opinion or not due to the various conversations going around. “I’ve heard several people say that the Dark Arts are magic that is used for the sole purpose of harming others, or that Dark Wizards are those that use any of the Unforgivable Curses for their own gain…but…don’t we have historical evidence that the Golden Trio used at least two of those curses during their final journey to defeat Lord Voldemort?” She was partly wondering out loud when she said this. “While I think we all agree that neither of the trio were Dark Wizards, but they DID use the spells for their own personal gain at times, just without the malicious intent.” She paused for a moment. “I think it is very difficult to assign a definition to the Dark Arts based on emotional responses. You could, as I believe someone mentioned, use a spell that was not meant to harm others…like a levitation spell, and cause harm. I suppose, if I were to draw a line, spells that fall under the Dark Arts are spells that have no neutral. They were created and are used and created out of evil and evil alone.”

She rubbed the back of her head. She was somewhat basing her opinion on emotions…this was quite a paradox really. Trying to define the Dark Arts.