Levels and contradictions in JKR's writing ( was Re: It's over, Snape is evil )

[Auria]

No: HPFGUIDX 138334

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Paula \"Elanor Pam\"" 
<elanorpam at y...> wrote:
> From: "lupinlore"
> 
> >Sienna makes a marvelous and telling point in her
> early comments about Voldemort.  We have had an emphasis on the
> importance of choice and JKR's statements about how no one is born
> evil.  But in Voldemort we have a character who seems, from all
> evidence and appearances, to be genetically evil, a corrupt product
> of a degenerate and inbred family.  Furthermore Dumbledore, the very
> character who is associated with statements about the power of 
choice
> and the importance of trust, seems to relate to him from the very
> first as a dangerous and deeply flawed child, a child who is in some
> way corrupt in his very essence.  In other words, we have a powerful
> and glaring contradiction woven into the basic fabric of the
> narrative, in which choice and trust is emphasized but the main
> villain is a monster from birth, the son of a poisoned bloodline.<
> 
Auria writes:
I don't see it as a contradiction at all. It reflects real life.  For 
instance, of children raised in dysfunctional / abusive households 
some go on to perpetuate the abuse to their own children, while 
others learn to heal and accept their abusive past and go on to 
become wonderful parents.  This to me is what Dumbledore is getting 
at with his 'its our choices' comment. Yes some children are born 
with certain negative characteristics or traits but it is their 
choice whether to act on them or acknowledge and turn them into 
something more positive.

Auria