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diff --git a/literature/hp_redemption.rst b/literature/hp_redemption.rst index e22df2f..83365e2 100644 --- a/literature/hp_redemption.rst +++ b/literature/hp_redemption.rst @@ -50,6 +50,45 @@ much of the path-to-hell-pavement with the redemption and it sometimes balances quite close to making excuses for his behaviour (BTW, I **love** Molly Weasley in this story). +**{update 2023-12-03}*** + +As a comment on thread “`Malfoy redemption`_” by `/u/Kaennal/`_: + +The word “redemption” is rather complicated, let’s distinguish +two versions of it: + +1. Draco returns among normal decent people, says “I am sorry”, + turns the right way, and that’s it, no heavy punishment + required, and anything he did could be waived away with “if + you don’t regret your decisions when you were sixteen, then + you are no more than seventeen”. + +2. He did things which just require punishment, and then + redemption must include it. As G. K. Chesterton’s Father Brown + reminded us, it is does not contradict each other, “Save your + soul and admit to murder” (which then always included capital + punishment). Perhaps that punishment could be lessened given + his age and other circumstances, but some punishment must be + included nevertheless. + +I think the link between these two situations lies somewhere +around Christmas of their sixth year. When two attempted murders +are committed, there is just no other way for a decent human +being than to work against the plan (i.e., in this situation, +start to talk with the Headmaster). Let’s hope that they will be +able to develop some clandestine way how to protect both Malfoys +(or at least Draco and Narcissa, Lucius is in my opinion gone too +far) and students of Hogwarts. + +And actually nothing changes much if those attempted murders +were committed by Draco or not (one strange characteristic +of both attempts is that they could be committed from the +outside of Hogwarts, so there is an explanation that it was +actually desperate Narcissa who in her fear for her son cursed +Madam Rosmerta). When you see that all your schoolmates are in +danger, you just have to do something effective to protect them, +otherwise you are an accomplice. + .. _`Angela Merkel in Auschwitz`: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-50690669/auschwitz-visit-responsibility-for-nazi-crimes-part-of-german-identity-says-merkel @@ -70,3 +109,9 @@ behaviour (BTW, I **love** Molly Weasley in this story). .. _SSwomen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_guards_in_Nazi_concentration_camps + +.. _`Malfoy redemption`: + https://www.reddit.com/r/HPfanfiction/comments/189ck92/malfoy_redemption/ + +.. _`/u/Kaennal/`: + https://www.reddit.com/user/Kaennal/ |