The bold part is the key bit. I fully agree with this statement, I just dont understand how you are can be applying it 180 degrees opposite of how I would. Integrity is: "the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness." Framing a man for a crime so that you can have him executed for unrelated things is not that, not at all. Neither is threatening a man by getting him to defending himself in his own home so you can have him arrested.
But what about tricking a murderous monster into defending himself in his own home, so you can remove an imminent threat to the Council and public safety? Because that's what Morgan
thought he was doing. It's also why he had no response ready when Harry didn't fall for it.
Morgan was being completely true to what motivated him, then and later, the well-being of the White Council and the human race. I suspect he sees both those things as tightly linked, and defending them as moral behavior. He tried to entrap Harry for exactly the same reason he lied about the death of LaFortier (along with being in love with Stacy) and for the same reason he was ready to 'take the fall' to protect the Council in
Turn Coat. In that, he was completely consistant.
That's integrity.
The problem is that he had lost the ability to discern between real threats and imaginary ones. He could no longer see the world as it actually was. That's not lack of integrity, that's bad judgement and being close to the breaking point.
Remember, Morgan did
not try to frame Harry. Trick him, entrap him, yes, but I'm not sure the Council would have a problem with entrapment anyway. I suspect their attitude might be closer to: "If you
can be entrapped, you
should be entrapped, because you're a warlock."
But either way, if Morgan had been willing to frame Harry,
Harry would now be dead. It wouldn't have been hard to plant evidence, set up phony sources, etc. Morgan's been at this for decades, Harry, esp. back then, was a newbie and a reckless, careless newbie on top of it. It would have been child's play to set Harry up using tactics that were genuinely over the line, and Morgan never did it. Because he had integrity enough not to do it, and later, he had integrity enough to realize and admit that he had been tragically wrong.
Morgan was a tragic case, and ultimately had a good heart, sure. But he was also a dirty cop who was willing to compromise his own ethics because he was old and beaten down and who, for perfectly understandable reasons, simply broke. Gave in. Stopped walking the straight and Narrow and started cutting corners and breaking the rules to uphold the rules. He didnt really come back from it until his entire world shattered in the opening events of TC.
No, he began to regain his balance in
Dead Beat. That was when he realized that Harry was not evil, and that the situation was not as he had understood it to be. It was the near-death of Anastasia in
Dead Beat that snapped him out of the dead end he had gone down, and his realization that he had let his anger and bad judgement lead him astray in that incident. He was still regaining his balance as of TC, and did not get time to finish it.
