Thin air/Choices Was re:sex/VanishingCabinet/SoulsEtc/Badger/Ch.2/

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 140025

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "saraquel_omphale" 
<saraquel_omphale at y...> wrote:
 
Saraquel:

> As to whether Voldemort had a "choice WRT his choice", I think 
> because, in the past, he chose to effectively, systematically, 
> eliminate his range of choices by requiring of himself that there 
> was only one way the world could be seen, his present is in a sense 
> pre-determined by himself.  Something along the lines of:
> 
> 1 Voldemort decides the world should be black and white (a choice).
> 
> 2 Voldemort  consistently interprets everything in terms of black 
> and white (the implementation of the choice).
> 
> 3 For Voldemort the world *is* now black and white. (the result of 
> the consistently applying 2)
> 
> 4 Voldemort now has effectively no choice but to see the world as 
> black and white. (he has effectively predetermined his present 
> choices by his past choice)

Geoff:
Yet again, this reminds me of the Dwarves in the last of CS Lewis' 
Narnia books, "The Last Battle".

The Dwarves consistently refuse to take sides, their mantra is "the 
Dwarves are for the Dwarves" and they will not believe in the 
existence of Aslan.

When Narnia is brought to an end and they go through the stable door 
into heaven, all the Dwarves who have joined this group are literally 
unable to see all the beauty around them; if they are offered food 
they can only see dirty water and mouldy food. They cannot see the 
wide, rolling country but only the inside of a dark, dirty stable.

Aslan says to the children:
"You see, they will not let us help them. They have chosen cunning 
instead of belief. Their prison is in their own minds, yet they are 
in that prison; and are so afraid of being taken in that they canont 
be taken out."
(Last Battle "How the Dwarves refused to be taken in")

This echoes the picture of the corner into which Voldemort has 
painted himself.