Link to short story that JKR wrote for charity is now on Leaky

[pippin_999]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Lee Kaiwen <leekaiwen at ...> wrote:
>
> Alla:
> what caused you to like them less after this story?
> 

> CJ:
> 
> But I was struck by the t-shirts. Members of a super-secret 
> crime-fighting organization and they garumph around advertising it? 
> That's two dressings-down Moody owes them.

Pippin:
The Order had its black ops and black operatives, but not all its 
operations were secret, any more than everything the CIA does is secret. 

Nor does it ever seem to have been a secret that James and Sirius were 
Order members, certainly not after James had defied Voldemort three times 
(I wonder if this was one of them.)   The tee shirts are a bit silly and 
flamboyant, but then so are the DE masks and robes, not to mention 
wizard fashions in general

CJ:
 As others have pointed out, we keep waiting for 
 James to display *some* redeeming quality, but here again, we don't get it.

Pippin:
Is there some confusion about what redemption is? It doesn't mean to 
achieve or be worthy of blessedness. Its literal meaning is to be bought 
out of  slavery. That could be literal slavery,  or it could be spiritual 
slavery to a false ideal or a to a false concept of oneself. 

Generally one doesn't earn redemption, one accepts it. I would say 
that James accepted redemption in  becoming an Order member and 
helping to redeem others from bondage to Voldemort.

Redemption need not be complete. You can be redeemed from one 
kind of slavery and yet remain in another, which is the usual situation 
in the Potter books. James had to remain arrogant to some degree, 
since his arrogance would kill him in the end ("too arrogant to 
believe he was mistaken in Black.") 


Pippin