Special treatment - yes or no

[annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 146058

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sistermagpie" <belviso at a...> wrote:
 
> There are times when the characters choose what they want to do 
> rather than what is right--James with Snape, for instance.  But I 
> think those times when they make the wrong decision maybe are meant 
> to show that when they choose to do the right thing it's all their 
> decision too.  So I feel like maybe she's saying it's good to be 
> independent and decide for yourself what's right and wrong, but that 
> doesn't always mean you'll make the correct decision.
> 
> -m

Annemehr:
Exactly!

Even the best of us sometimes purposely make the wrong decision: Harry
does it, Snape does it, Draco does it.  Dumbledore must do it (the
PS/SS points? allowing Harry a broom in first year?).

Unfortunately, even the best of us make the wrong decision despite our
most sincere desires to do the right thing. OoP was the big book for
that; it seems to have happened to everyone.  Doing what's right is
not at *all* easy when you can't even see what the right thing is. 
And judging *someone else's* decisions is all but impossible when
1)you don't know what reasoning went into them, and 2)even if you did,
you may actually have decided differently.  I think this will be one
of Harry's final lessons to learn, via Snape, of course.

Annemehr