i suppose we can quibble over how to characterize them.i haven't read them myself, i am going by what i read that Cardinal Ratzinger said about it. i agree in principle that there is way too much in the way of blurring the distinctions between right and wrong and good and evil. that's what i took him as getting at.
My point is...the blurring doesnt really happen if both protagonist, and antagonist are the same type of character. in this case Magic Users.
Good remains good, and evil, evil.