Who is Harry Potter? (long)

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No: HPFGUIDX 9394

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Amy " <aiz24 at h...> wrote:

> I think I'm backed up by Dumbledore here.  His pet peeve is "purity 
of 
> blood" and, by extension (and explicitly at the end of CoS), the 
idea 
> that we are fated by our birth to be one thing or another.  "It is 
our 
> choices, rather than our abilities, that make us who we are." 
(quotes 
> are approximate).  Someone suggested once that "only a true 
Gryffindor 
> could have taken GG's sword from the hat" might mean that Harry is a 
> descendant of GG.  Maybe, but I'm hoping not.  Dumbledore has just 
> gotten through telling him that the reason the Hat didn't put him in 
> Slytherin was that he chose not to be in Slytherin.  AD repeats this 
> theme to Fudge in GoF, "The Parting of the Ways," when he points out 
> that Crouch was as pureblooded as a wizard could be, and look what 
he 
> chose to make of his life.  No one is born to be good or evil.

This is COMPLETELY unrelated, but I thought I should add it anyway. 
It's one of my favorite quotes ever, and I felt it kinda applied to 
what you were saying about Dumbledore. 

"Men at sometime, are Masters of their Fates. The fault (deere Brutus) 
is not in our Starres, But in our Selves, that we are underlings."
 - Cassius, Julius Caesar, Act I, scene ii, l. 147-149 (spelling, 
punctuation, line notation from FF)

I know that citation is kinda confusing, but it's the best I could do 
(I've always hated citing Shakespeare).