Ron WAS: Re: DH reread CH 4-5

[pippin_999]

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> 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.

Pippin:
If JKR made it easy for the characters to form new habits,  there'd be less challenge in doing what's right rather than what is easy. They'd just have to keep doing the right thing until it got easy for them. That works for some of the characters some of the time, but IMO JKR is more interested in what happens when it doesn't work.

Pippin