Alright, cut the crap. Does anyone here really think Celestia is a cruel being?
She only manipulations in the entire series were at the beginning in bringing the Elements of Harmony together, but in doing so, she freed her sister from her own madness, got her student out of the library and amongst real friends for the first time in her life, and ended an ongoing threat to the ponies of Equestria all in a single night and made the lives of all involved better. These are not the actions of a wicked being.
Seriously, this is along the same lines of something Gandalf would pull, yet Tolkien fans don't go around pushing the idea that h'e s some kind of cruel entity.
Sorry if I came on too strong, it's just that I like Celestia, yet I can't go anywhere in the fandom without the idea that she's some kind of sadist or Tyrant creeping into the discussion. I'm seriously just growing very tired of it, so if everyone was just kidding, I'm sorry.