Forgiveness

[Geoff]

No: HPFGUIDX 188700



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "k12listmomma" <k12listmomma at ...> 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.
> >
> >    Bart
> 
> 
> But didn't in canon Dumbledore say something in a conversation to Harry 
> about "it's our choices that make us what we are" in an earlier book? 

Geoff:
Indeed yes.. This is the famous and oft-quoted (certainly by 
me!) canon:

'..."Yet the Sorting Hat placed you in Gryffindor. You know why 
that was. Think."

"It only put me in Gryffindor," said Harry in a defeated voice, 
"because I asked not to go in Slytherin..."

"Exactly," said Dumbledore, beaming once more. "Which makes 
you very different from Tom Riddle. It is our choices, Harry, that 
show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."'

(COS "Dobby's Reward" p.245 UK edition)