RomanFanboy Wrote:I perceive that Harry consistently made decisions that either set him on the path, or provided adequate evidence of consent. 'Staying with the Dursleys full time', 'Apathy towards who killed his parents and tried to do in him', 'having no interest in magic', 'joining the Death Eaters and like factions', 'assuming that Voldemort is entirely dead, not coming back, and that doing anything is hence meaningless' and 'give up and go hide' may look like bad alternatives from our perspective, but they do exist.When Harry's options are "do what Dumbledore wants him to do" or "do something worse than that," is he really making his own choices?
You may be going somewhere if you ride the railroad, but you aren't setting your own path...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012