Being Good and Evil ( Draco and a bit of Ron)/Harry as DD man

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 154706

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "phoenixgod2000" <jmrazo at ...> wrote:
>
>   Betsy Hp:
> > So now Draco is having to realize that he must choose a path based 
> > on his *own* sense of right and wrong, not one formed by the 
> > positive influence of his parents (they went this way, so I will 
> > too) or the negative influence of Harry (he went that way, so I must 
> > go another).  

phoenixgod2000:
> Two points. One, I think you are right about where the draco plotline 
> is headed.  I think JKR is going to redeem him. or at least try. short 
> of a miracle happening, I'm not going to buy a redeemed Draco for one 
> simple reason.  regardless of his dark night of the soul, moral 
> revelation about Daddy, or the scales falling from his eyes, Draco will 
> still have broken the law.  He will still have nearly murdered Ron and 
> that other girl whose name escapes me at the moment, he will still have 
> allowed death eaters into the castle, still have created the situation 
> that killed Dumbledore and mutilated Bill.  Its good that Draco might 
> have a change of heart, but ultimately, so what? he still needs to pay 
> his debt to the people he hurt through his actions.

Geoff:
But redemption - at least in a Christian sense - doesn't mean that 
lawbreaking is overlooked. There are examples of folk who have become 
Christians when they were already in a prison cell and that didn't earn 
them a pardon. They still had to deal with the results of their wrongdoing. 
They were able to show their change of heart and its effect on their life 
style after they had finished their pounishment for whatever they had
done wrong.

Certainly within the Baptist church, I know of one minister who had been in 
prison when he experienced this and he used his experiences to develop a
very effective ministry to the underprivileged and lawbreakers with whom 
he came in contact.