[HPforGrownups] Re: Why redeem Draco?

[Janet Anderson]

No: HPFGUIDX 59991

>I'd like to think that JKR will give us more characters who are in
>the grey area, like Fudge, than who are clearly evil (Voldemort) or
>clearly good (Harry).

A good idea on the surface, but I wonder ... C. S. Lewis said somewhere that 
you can't spend your entire life being a good egg. Sooner or later you must 
either hatch or go bad.

JKR seems to agree that sooner or later you must make a choice.  I think 
that if you don't make a choice, either your actions or your lack of actions 
will make the choice for you -- you will be helping one side or the other.

Note that this works better for evil than for good. (Someone else said that 
all that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. I 
think they'll carve that one on Fudge's tombstone -- if Dumbledore doesn't 
get there first and put "I told you so.")

In my opinion Fudge's actions and lack of actions are pointing toward the 
side of Voldemort and evil.  He may not have evil intent, but whether he 
eventually turns deliberately to the dark side or remains a well-meaning 
bumbler, the results will continue to benefit Voldemort unless he makes a 
conscious decision to do otherwise.  I suspect he will turn evil for the 
same reason Peter Pettigrew did -- cowardice and the inability to withstand 
threats. One characteristic of fudge is that when it is subjected to heat, 
it melts into a puddle ...


Janet Anderson
(I found out recently that I have to leave town at 2:00 pm on June 20 and 
won't be back until late Sunday. And the bookstore manager says he is not 
*allowed* to give me OOP early ... which means I'll lose the whole 
weekend!!!)



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