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

[pippin_999]

> > 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.)
> 
> Magpie:
> Adding--that if you are using just the "bought out of slavery" 
> definition some characters could certainly be said to have done
that,  but that doesn't make it a redemption story as that's usually 
> described. They're more redeemed like Mowgli in the Jungle Books
who's  bought by a bull so he can live--he's redeemed by the bull, but
it's  not a redemption story.
> 

Pippin:

By that definition, the biblical Exodus is not a redemption story
either. And if it's not, what is? The Children of Israel of course
despite their redemption remained famously divided and stiff-necked. 
But they agreed to take direction from God (which they didn't always
follow.) 

James remained arrogant, but agreed to take direction from Dumbledore
as an Order member (which he didn't always follow.) And this enabled
him to fight dark magic effectively enough that Voldemort considered
him one who had defied him three times.  Something James was not doing
while he was out cavorting with a werewolf and picking on young Snape.


Pippin