They are essential for character development, and prehaps for the personality of the characters themselves. I cannot name anyone, especially after September 11th, whose life has not been touched by evil. Evil shapes us, it shows us our strengths and our weaknesses and enables us to change the way we live and the way we think about life. The bad guys help us live, as well as destroying lives. It is all about adaptation, survival fittest and all that.
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Do not tamper with the affairs of wizards, they are not all that subtle - Terry Pratchett
To write is to make dreams, to make dreams is to awaken the fantasy of the mind, to awaken the mind is to be a master.
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