Good moral core (Re: Dirty Harry/Clean Harry)

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No: HPFGUIDX 117075


> Neri:
> 
> A 3 yrs old perhaps doesn't have a free will, but JKR clearly 
thinks 
> that a 11 yrs old has one.
> 
> At what age exactly free will kicks in doesn't really matters. ONCE 
> it did, all your background doesn't count anymore, only your 
> decision. The background might make your choise much more 
difficult, 
> but it is not A REASON. Asking for background reasons for a free 
will 
> decision is self-contradictory.



Alla: I think we got a little confused here or maybe it is just me.

What do you think is the reason for Harry to choose the side of good?

To make his choice, he must have had SOME reason, instead of just 
saying I want to be good from now on. Why did he want to be good? 



Neri:
> At 15, Tom Riddle was a talented student, a good-looking boy, a 
> prefect, highly appreciated by both his teachers and his 
classmates. 
> Yes, he didn't have parents and had to return to the hated muggle 
> orphanage every summer, but he had friends at Hogwarts and many 
good 
> things to look for in his future. He didn't have to open the 
Chamber 
> and he didn't have to murder Myrtle. It was his choice. 
> 


Alla:

No, he did not have to do all that and I have no sympathy whatsoever 
towards the choices he made. Moreover, I have less trouble 
understanding why Tom Riddle made them than why Harry did. Tom hated 
his father with all his heart and perhaps his sociopathy went from 
there.


But what made Harry's free will to work that way? He clearly made his 
choices earlier than he was eleven. Why?