The Core of the Elder Wand and other new JKR explanations

[Bruce Alan Wilson]

No: HPFGUIDX 179760

Steve:
"But this 'stunted self' is NOT how Tom always was. At one
time he was a handsome healthy boy with all the potential
in the world. He could have been Minister of Magic, he
could have been a wealthy and powerful businessman with
international influence, he could have been anything, but
he let petty emotions and fears rule him, and he paid dearly
for that choice."

Exactly. Choices and consequences. He made his choices and now 
must live with the consequences.

He was given plenty of chances to repent, but he never took 
any one. As C.S. Lewis said in "Pilgrim's Regress", Hell is 
the last severe mercy given to those who will not let Him do 
anything more for him.  Or, as Dante put it in the "Inferno", 
'her piety or pity must die.'

Bruce Alan Wilson

"The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other 
forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle 
remains pure in heart."--Iris Murdoch