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

[sistermagpie]

> 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.

Magpie:
Given how James starts out, that's not a change. James was always the 
way he was while also hating Dark Magic. Either he didn't really need 
to be redeemed or he wasn't, imo, because he was always the same, 
personality-wise. 

-m (Who didn't think James needed to be redeemed particularly, which 
is lucky for him because iho the Potterverse is the Land that 
Redemption Forgot.)