Grindelwald and Tom Riddle, and end of LV

[fanofminerva]

<snip>
> The personality of Tom can make a choice and chooses to follow the 
seductor,
> so to speak; it's easy, it feels good, it can open him to power 
beyond his
> wildest dreams...and it's the bad way to go for most thinking 
wizards, but
> he doesn't see it this way.  He falls into this trap an is now 
ruled and
> bound by this power.
> 
> Harry, on the other hand, has within him the capacity to love 
honestly, love
> deeply; these are products of the good (god) and abhorred by the 
Dark One.
> It is this power, IMO, which stay's Harry's hand, so to speak, and 
gives him
> the stability to make his choices and try to do what's right.
> 
><snip>

Lee, once again very close to my thoughts.  Another question...Can 
Tom Riddle be redeemed and LV destroyed?  Crucify the old man, so to 
speak.  Given JKR's perspective, I think this is a plausible 
hypothesis for an ending.  Overcoming hate with love, evil with 
good, power with meekness, obsession with humility.

Julie