[HPforGrownups] Re: JKR Chat "The Crucial and Central Question"

[bufo_viridis at interia.pl]

No: HPFGUIDX 92343

> Kneasy:
 
> Blaming Dumbledore? Really? Just because I consider him to be a
> cunning, devious, conniving, cold-hearted fixer doesn't mean that 
> I blame him. Quite the contrary. Wars aren't won by kindly old softies.
> I strongly approve of the way he's going about his business and
> assuming that I'm right in my presumptions, that he will do what is 
> necessary.

Good point. In OotP we finally saw the darker side of Dumble. He know what's to be done and it's doing it (this doesn't mean he can't err). For sure he didn't won over Grindevald with his sweets (unless he suffocated him with Turtle Toffee).

> So my contention that he's manipulating Harry's mind and actions is
> to  be  expected from him. It's the right thing to do and
> IMO it has been wholly deliberate, one of the more visible facets of
> his plan, whatever that is. But this being the case I  can't logically
> agree with the idea that Harry has choices springing up around him
> and that his actions are of his own volition. He doesn't and they aren't,
> otherwise I'm contradicting myself. 

Yet he could withdraw several times - although in "Hero Development" terms it would mean he failed. His choices are very limited, but so far he decided to play along.

> And no, I don't think he's *arranged* the ending, but I wouldn't be 
> surprised if he doesn't already *know* the ending, or perhaps the
> optimal way to achieve it. But to get there he has to make certain the
> right pieces are more or less in the right places and that's what he's 
> up to. Harry is one the pieces and he has to be in the right position
> before he can be effective, whether he wants it or not. 

Yep, that's a problem - his exercices in free will may end up in his ineffectivity in final fight. So he possibly wil have to resign from his "free choice" to win the final fight. Now the question is how aware he is/will be of the choice. Because somebody who is playing along with rules set by other does not necessary mean he is not executing his rght for free choice. He may fully consciously agree to fulfill his role, even if it means complete "conformism". This a song of the future in the moment. I'd like only to stress that by no means we should equall "revolt" with "free will/choice".

Cheers, Viridis


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