Given Rowling's fairly overt Christian influences, I feel like Voldemort being utterly irredeemable would be at odds with the overarching philosophy of Harry Potter. Or to put it another way, Voldemort was only irredeemable because he couldn't love; since change was impossible from within, he couldn't be forgiven.
To put it another other way, I don't think there was a Moral Event Horizon (to quote TVTropes) that he passed. Voldemort's character flaws, and not his actions, are what doomed him.
To put it another other way, I don't think there was a Moral Event Horizon (to quote TVTropes) that he passed. Voldemort's character flaws, and not his actions, are what doomed him.
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Harry Potter (the entire series)
- 06/04/2010 11:00:07 PM
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Re: Harry Potter (the entire series)
- 06/04/2010 11:29:49 PM
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Really?
- 07/04/2010 05:41:46 PM
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I honestly think it's a combination of the two
- 07/04/2010 05:55:18 PM
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I'll give you that....
- 07/04/2010 06:11:27 PM
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It does seem logical that the series gets more teenager-oriented as Harry grows older.
- 07/04/2010 06:47:57 PM
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Re: Harry Potter (the entire series)
- 07/04/2010 12:26:22 AM
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I get where you're coming from
- 07/04/2010 06:19:13 PM
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That's kind of the point though...
- 07/04/2010 08:44:26 PM
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This is how I see it too
- 08/04/2010 12:43:03 AM
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just a comment about your rich=bad
- 08/04/2010 02:05:32 AM
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I agree with many of your points.
- 07/04/2010 12:44:31 AM
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I have to dispute the concept of going "too far."
- 07/04/2010 06:32:47 AM
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Hm, I don't know.
- 07/04/2010 11:08:12 AM
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This is a lot like the argument I'm having with Joel on the CMB concerning original sin. 
- 08/04/2010 07:21:39 AM
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- 08/04/2010 07:21:39 AM
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Where is this debate? I'd like to read it.
- 08/04/2010 05:18:38 PM
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I should have put "debate" in quotes. It's about four sentences long.
- 08/04/2010 10:32:43 PM
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More conversation on Snape.
- 07/04/2010 06:01:37 PM
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His death wasn't very spectacular, but he did play an essential role...
- 07/04/2010 06:45:58 PM
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Brief comments on Magic, Dumbledore, and The Epilogue.
- 07/04/2010 07:13:55 AM
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Re: Brief comments on Magic, Dumbledore, and The Epilogue.
- 07/04/2010 06:09:20 PM
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The movies are even worse about this.
- 07/04/2010 06:15:35 PM
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Death doesn't actually happen in slow-motion fit for the cinema screen.
- 08/04/2010 07:24:31 AM
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Re: Death doesn't actually happen in slow-motion fit for the cinema screen.
- 08/04/2010 03:27:09 PM
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Harry Potter and Star Wars have two radically different approaches to this
- 07/04/2010 06:13:25 PM
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When my son asked for his own set of Harry Potter books,
- 07/04/2010 10:26:37 PM
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This is assuming of course...
- 07/04/2010 11:00:15 PM
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I was most irritated by the ironic names
- 08/04/2010 05:38:59 AM
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Re: I was most irritated by the ironic names
- 08/04/2010 10:07:40 PM
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Exactly - it's not as obvious if you're a kid, then it seems clever and it's fun to decode.
- 09/04/2010 01:04:11 AM
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