Choice and Essentialism/Understanding Snape)

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 154038

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "festuco" <vuurdame at ...> wrote:
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> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "a_svirn" <a_svirn@> wrote:
> >
> 
> > a_svirn:
> > I didn't mean that Voldemort had no possibilities to turn out 
good. 
> > On the contrary ¡Ì 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
>

a_svirn:
I guess we are saying the same thing basically. Just starting from 
the two opposite ends. Voldemort did not steal at Hogwarts because 
it suited him not to steal, not because he chose to be honest. He¡¯s 
just inherently dishonest (and bad, and mad) ¨C which is exactly my 
point. And he is probably the only character in the HP books who 
was ¡°born¡± that way.