When power is used for good, power has the ability to change the world for the better. When it’s used for evil though, power has the ability to destroy it.
The best example will be the detrimental nature of ultimate power is the creation of the elder wand. Wizards have to kill its master to own it, friends kill each other to own it…it’s just all-around a machine of destruction.
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