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

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 117174


SSSusan wrote :
"I think you may be right about an inner urging, and I find it 
interesting that you think of that urging as being that LIMITS free 
will.  For some, like me, *knowing* how something made him feel 
previously can actually be FREEING.  How?  It helps him understand
what he wants to do next time.  If he made a choice which made him
feel proud or content or good all over, I don't see it as a *limiting*
factor next time he's faced with an option.  He might well feel
*freed* by knowing he's going to feel positive if he makes a similar
choice this time."

Del replies :
I agree partially.

For normal, every day choices, this would work.

But for the heroic choices, I have a problem. Those choices *ended up*
being good ones because things always turned miraculously well. But
things always came close to turning very bad. 

So either Harry is blind to the consequences his choices *would* have
had if he weren't outrageously lucky (that's very possible, he's only
a kid after all), or there's something inside him that blinds him to
this aspect of his previous decisions when he has to make another one
of the same kind.

Example : Harry almost got himself and Ron killed when he insisted on
following the spiders in the Forbidden Forest. Yet, a few months
later, he makes almost a similar decision by deciding to go to the
Chamber of Secrets with Ron and that almost useless Lockhart. 

Del