Choices, was: (LV never loved anyone)

[tonks_op]

No: HPFGUIDX 110525

Jim <JLaming263 at h...> wrote in #110479:
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> If you choose to swim down stream (into the darkness), your 
> progress is swift and sure in the direction of your choosing.
> 
> Can you return from the downstream path?  Well, given enough time, 
> determination and swimming ability, yes.  In mortality, the time 
> factor may limit your progress but with immortality there is no 
> limit to the ability to return EXCEPT desire or choice.  Is Draco 
> redeemable?  I expect so.  Is it Likely?  Only JKR knows for 
> sure.  Is LV redeemable.  Is it Likely?  That's a bet even Bagman
> wouldn't > take...
> 
> In my belief system there is the wild card of repentance and 
> redemption.  I have not seen direct reference to this in the WW 
> but would like it to exist there too.


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Tonks_op replies:


Thank you for that thought.  It helped me to remember something 
important to this discussion.  In Christianity the only real sin 
from which we can not recover is the choice to go against God.  
People don't get "possessed" like in the movies. They choose that 
path and the choosing in not a one time thing, but a progression 
over time.  At the end of their life a person who ALWAYS makes the 
choice to go towards the darkness will show very little, if any of 
the original light that was in them at their birth. They would 
become, as Tom has, some very ugly thing that is half snake.

I also thing that Draco is not like Tom, he will be ok in the end.

Tonks_op