"What's evil?"
Kevin arched a brow. "Excuse me?" he asked Anthony. "You don't know what evil is?"
Anthony rolled his eyes. "Of course I know what evil is, Kevin. It's just… Well, you're Muggleborn, and your family's not particularly religious, is it?"
Kevin nodded and then shook his head in order to answer both questions. Then he asked, "What are you going on about, Goldstein?"
Anthony shrugged and rubbed an eye. He was tired from staying up all night studying for finals and his mind had wandered to religion, as it often did. It wasn't that Anthony was particularly religious, but he was the only Jewish boy in his year at Hogwarts. Terry was the most religious of their set, and a Christian, so the two often entered into different religious discussions. Terry wasn't around, though, so it was Kevin that Anthony cornered. "I'm just curious," he said. "You were raised without any magical knowledge and you're not religious, so what's evil to you? It wouldn't be dark magic or the devil, now, would it?"
The brown-haired boy sighed and stretched before answering Anthony's question. "I think it's indifference," Kevin said, placing his quill down. "Indifference, you know? It's the opposite of love, no matter what anyone says, because it's the absence of feelings. So it's got to be evil, I think."
Anthony nodded, considering this, and the two boys went back to their essays.
A/N: I always wondered about how religion affects the students, and I really wanted to write a "philosophical Ravenclaw" chapter. So there you have it!