InGlorious
I'm a big fan of how the Horcux didn't so much merge with Lily as it did twist and pervert her thought process. On a technical level, nothing has changed. Her top priority is still Harry. However, with the new "perspective" the definition of "protect" has widened a lot and includes some questionable things
I mean taking vengeance on helpless muggles is not really going to send message to anyone. Now that Harry is wizard, they couldn't do anything to him anyways. Not that I disagree with payback as long as he doesn't go excessive with it. That said, vengeance doesn't really work, vengeance will just make you more enemies, or existing enemies even more so. What does work is demonstrating power and standing your ground against bullies. Overall, it has been demonstrated time and time against during history that mercy works much better than vengeance. It's immature short term solution.