Voldemort/Re: Ending

[Renee]

No: HPFGUIDX 176051

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214"
<dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:
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>> Betsy Hp:
> No. They couldn't be because the Nazi party is illegal in Germany.
> Just as segragation and slavery is illegal in the USA. Are there
> still racists around? Sure. But they're not codified by the
> government. And that's a big change. One that occurred quickly,
> with a stroke of a pen. <eg>
> 
> Alla:
> 
> First, the party I saw on the news was not calling themselves Nazi, 
> but from listening to their program, I thought it was same crap, just 
> under different name. But as I said, I will have to do more research 
> to speak more confidently.
> 

Renee:
There is a neo-nazi party in Germany, the NPD, which is exactly as bad
as you think it is. But AFAIK it's not represented in the German
parliament, let alone in the government, and at the moment people are
trying to get it banned. The German government consist of Christian
Democrats and Social Democrats.

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And now, I hope someone can answer a rather burning question for me.
JKR has said somewhere that she was trying to depict Voldemort as a
psychopath. Now I always thought psychopathy was a condition that is
both incurable and untreatable. Psychopaths lack empathy and are
incapable of feeling remorse, among other things. Why, then, does JKR
have Harry suggest that Voldemort try for some remorse? Is this as
nonsensical as I think it is? Has she failed to take a serious look at
what psychopathy actually is. Or do I have the wrong ideas about it? 

Renee