Forgiveness

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 188698

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bart at ...> wrote:

> However, one thing of interest I found while looking back; 
> someone reports that JKR said in an interview that the drop 
> of Harry's blood gave Morty a choice. I tried to find the 
> original but I have only found a couple of second-hand 
> references, no actual quote or specific interview.


zanooda:

Is Accio Quote reliable enough for you :-)? Here is their transcript of that interview: 

http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2007/0729-dateline-vieira.html

The part about Harry's blood is at the very end. If the link doesn't work, here is this passage:


MV: Why was it important to you, Jo, to write about the cruelty and inhumanity?

JKR: I'm not sure why. But it was what I wanted to write about most. And it's about choice. And you are shown that Voldemort. Ummm... I suppose we're going to call him a psychopath. But he's so, in many ways, he is what he is and he's beyond redemption. Although this being Harry Potter and because I can take liberties because I have magic in my world, it is shown at the very end of the book that he did have a chance for redemption because he had taken into his body this-- this drop of hope or love--

MV: Harry's blood.

JKR: Right. So that meant that if he could have mustered the courage to repent, he would have been okay. But, of course, he wouldn't. And that's his choice. 



> Bart wrote:

> Now, if JKR says that Morty could repent, I'll put that in the same 
> file as Dumbledore being gay; interesting to see what was in JKR's > mind, but it's not present at all in the text.


Agreed :-).


zanooda, who doesn't want to consider JKR's interviews canon...