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diff --git a/faith/hp_redemption.rst b/faith/hp_redemption.rst index 1175a35..a482aaa 100644 --- a/faith/hp_redemption.rst +++ b/faith/hp_redemption.rst @@ -7,15 +7,16 @@ How redeemable is canon Draco Malfoy? (originally posted_ on Reddit) -Yes, everybody is redeemable. I believe redemption stories of some -former SSmen (and SSwomen), guards in the Nazi concentration camps, etc. -Redemption (or let’s use the old-fashioned term “conversion” or -“penance”) however doesn’t mean to somehow excuse previous deeds. It -requires true acknowledgement that these deeds happened, to own them, -and to admit that they were evil. It requires honest asking for -forgiveness. I don’t want to get any political, but it requires at least -on the personal level, something like what Germany did after the Second -World War (see for example recent visit of `Angela Merkel in Auschwitz`_). +Yes, everybody is redeemable. I believe redemption stories of +some former SSmen (and SSwomen), guards in the Nazi concentration +camps, etc. Redemption (or let’s use the old-fashioned term +“conversion” or “penance”) however doesn’t mean to somehow excuse +previous deeds. It requires true acknowledgement that these deeds +happened, to own them, and to admit that they were evil. It +requires honest asking for forgiveness. I don’t want to get any +political, but it requires at least on the personal level, +something like what Germany did after the Second World War (see +for example recent visit of `Angela Merkel in Auschwitz`_). What do we see in most so-called redemption stories of Draco Malfoy (or Severus Snape, or Petunia Dursley)? Excuses that those @@ -34,9 +35,9 @@ main heroes stand in the wreckage of their lives, they are disgusted in themselves, and they try to build up their lives back. -Perhaps the closest I got to it was `Exile by bennybear`_, but -even that was more story of a pureblood trying to find his way in -the strange world of muggles then true redemption story of +Perhaps the closest I got to it was `Exile by bennybear`_, but +even that was more story of a pureblood trying to find his way in +the strange world of muggles then true redemption story of dealing with guilt. Nevertheless, it is still a very good story. Or perhaps `Dudley’s Memories`_ and `Snape’s Memories`_ by |