Choice and Essentialism/Understanding Snape)

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No: HPFGUIDX 154036

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "a_svirn" <a_svirn at ...> wrote:
>

> a_svirn:
> I didn't mean that Voldemort had no possibilities to turn out good. 
> On the contrary – he had them all, but he couldn't help choosing the 
> wrong path, because he couldn't help being "mad, bad and dangerous". 
> What sort of person he is if he never ever loved anyone? Never even 
> had the need for human society? Remember, after they had just 
> watched the orphanage memory Dumbledore pointed this out for Harry? 


I didn't make my point clear I presume. Voldemort being mad, bad and
dangerous did not prevent him from making the choises I described. He
could help making the choices that he did. At Hogwarts he did not
steal, for example. But not because he suddenly was inherently honest. 

Gerry