I guess I shouldn't really be surprised by Harry casting Unforgivables, since Harry's personal character was never ever in doubt. Dark Magic just bounces right off him, really.
Maybe this is the religion thing. Calvinism holds that you either are or aren't redeemed, no matter what you do. Friends, who had some weird Baptist/Calvinist thing going, told me once that if a Saved (slated for salvation from before conception) person got too close to being really bad, or headed toward being reprobate, God would just take that person before they crossed the line. "It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." Show. Not shape, inform, mold, etc. We make these choices because of who we were born to be.
"In particular, predestination concerns God's decision to determine ahead of time what the destiny of groups and/or individuals will be and also includes all of Creation." Wikipedia, on Calvinism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predestination
Goodness, or badness, is predetermined, and revealed by our choices.
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Maybe this is the religion thing. Calvinism holds that you either are or aren't redeemed, no matter what you do. Friends, who had some weird Baptist/Calvinist thing going, told me once that if a Saved (slated for salvation from before conception) person got too close to being really bad, or headed toward being reprobate, God would just take that person before they crossed the line. "It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." Show. Not shape, inform, mold, etc. We make these choices because of who we were born to be.
"In particular, predestination concerns God's decision to determine ahead of time what the destiny of groups and/or individuals will be and also includes all of Creation." Wikipedia, on Calvinism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predestination
Goodness, or badness, is predetermined, and revealed by our choices.