OoP: Most Ridiculously Mushy Theory *Ever*

[goingoutsleepwalking]

No: HPFGUIDX 65294

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First of all

Bohcoo said:
> Can we come up with an abbreviation that stands for, "I truly and
> sincerely did try to read all the posts before I ventured forth in
> posting my opinion but I am going to burst if I don't send this in,  so
> I apologize for bringing this up if it has already been discussed?"
>
> I know I am not the only one who is having trouble keeping up with  all
> these fabulous messages. I spend hours, enthralled, and still  cannot
> get them all read.
>
> And, I do apologize if these things have been discussed before, etc.

I (goingoutsleepwalking) say:
I feel your pain

Okay, now something that has been rolling around in my head a little since
I finished OoP.  Maybe it has been brought up, but I haven't seen it yet
and I can only spend so many hours a day reading these emails, even if I
do consider it to be the most intereting thing that I do all day.  Okay,
it's Harry's heart that is going to be a major factor in his defeat of
Voldemort (bear with me while I state the obvious, I'm trying to explain
*why* this has been in my mind as well as what it is... only now that I
try to put it into words I am failing...)  Okay, there is more to my
thought process and it's probably going to sound kind of off the wall
without that, but I don't know how to put it into words.  But grudges held
against people is an increasingly important theme in the book (Snape's
interactions with almost every character, the way the Dursleys have
treated Harry, Dumbledore having *really* let Harry down, the list goes
on)  and the negative results of these grudges are obvious.  Snape is a
bitter, nasty man who can't let go of something that happended when he was
a school boy.  Harry is becoming angrier and more violent (I'm not saying
puberty isn't a big part of this, just that the bitterness he feels
towards Voldemort and, recently, other characters *is* contribuiting *as
well*).  So... okay, I keep feeling like I have to apologize because this
is going to sound dumb.  I'm not saying I firmly believe this is what's
going to happen, do don't be hostile when you shoot it down.  I think it's
a possibility Harry will have to learn to forgive Voldemort.  When
Voldemort is directly exposed to that feeling and cannot escape it...  I
don't know.  But I know that in real life *no* one is purely evil.  No
matter what terrible things a person does, somewhere inside of them they
have justified their actions to themselves.  Something CS Lewis wrote, and
maybe it's irrelevant, but I don't think so: (don't have the exact quote)
The universe cannot consist only of good and evil, with both being equal,
because no one ever does anything for the pure sake of something bad.  No
matter how sick what they are doing is, their goal is good.  Even people
who do things that cause other people pain "just to cause them pain." 
What that really means is that they derive pleasure from others' pain. 
And pleasure is good.  Thus good does good *for* good, but evil does not
do evil *for* evil.  Evil is simply a bad way of going about getting
something good.  So, while I don't think that Voldemort can ever be
redeemed at this point, I also don't think that he can just face that kind
of empathy directed at him and flowing directly into him (via the scar
connection).  I think it would destroy him.

Okay.  So long.  And, yes, I know, sooooooo mushy.  Probably too mushy for
even Jo.  Anyway, I really just want to see if anyone out there can make
sense of this and thinks there could possibly be anything of any value in
contemplating it.

goingoutsleepwalking