Ron WAS: Re: DH reread CH 4-5

[sistermagpie]

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> > Magpie:
> > I think it's important to remember that pretty much everybody in this
> > universe stays the same, at heart, though some people just need time
> > to uncover who they were or wind up having to go down the wrong road
> > to rediscover themselves.
> 
> Miles:
> That's an opinion one can hear quite frequently, but I daresay it's not a 
> unquestioned matter of fact that anyone should remember as a fact.
> 
> People are partly determined by their genes and early childhood life, but 
> they are shaped by their life and their own decisions as well. What is more 
> important is always and will always be a point of discussion between 
> scientists, I doubt there will ever be a decision. We are talking a lot 
> about religion lately - this sounds a bit like predestination vs free will. 
> Did I mention I'm a Roman Catholic? ;)

Magpie:
Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but did you think I was saying that this was a fact, like, in the real world? Because that's not what I meant at all--ITA with everything you're saying here. When I said "in this universe" I meant only the Potterverse, where as Dumbledore says "our choices show (not make) who we are." Characters have to keep behaving as if people can change, of course, but I think a lot of what happens turns on characters being very recognizeable at different stages in their life. It's more that it sometimes takes time to know them or really get them correctly, but there's going to be foreshadowing.

Re: Ron and Hermione, I have the same view about them. I do think they were always obviously made to come together but to be honest, every time I imagine them as adults I picture them divorced. I know that's not canon, but it's just what I always see in my head.