Question about Harry Potter

Via Domenico Bettinelli, a thoughtful post from Melanie Bettinelli of The Wine-Dark Sea on Harry Potter, Anti-hero. She argues principally against the morality of the Harry Potter stories. referring to Scott Peterson, she points out that Harry does the same things as Voldemort but is always assumed to be right whereas Voldemort is wrong.
Harry lies and cheats and steals and seldom gets punished. And this might be ok except this is a kids book and it never questions Harry's morals or even presents him struggling with the moral issues.
The punchline in this discussion is a question asked by another author "Llama Butchers":
If he could obtain it, would Harry use The Ring to defeat Voldemort?
That very neatly illustrates the superiority of Tolkein's story.

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