More thought about Draco.

[nrenka]

No: HPFGUIDX 129694

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
<gbannister10 at a...> wrote:

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> In COS, Dumbledore famously remarked that it is not our abilities 
> which make us what we are but our choices.

Sorry to do this, but you hit my absolute pet peeve misquote.

Dumbledore says that our choices SHOW what we are.  Not make.  Show.

Our choices reveal our character and our virtues; they reveal the 
results of our intentions as well as something about the intentions 
themselves.  This seems to me to point towards this virtue 
ethics/character centered morality where choices are illustrative, 
not defining.

What this means for Draco is that his choices are SHOWING something 
about what he is, his character.  And so far it doesn't look too 
good--and now is the time for his choices to further show what 
intentions he has.

-Nora doesn't quite like the show rather than make, but takes it as 
it is