Re: What about the power of individual talent and self-respect?, Part 2
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It seems that Severus was one of the few wizards who was dissatisfied enough with the WW to want to junk the system.
It seems to be that quite a few of Tom Riddle's cohort were against the status quo, including Tom Riddle himself. I know if I'd been a young Riddle, suddenly finding out that you'd been known about all your life by the WW yet hadn't been taken away from what appears to have been a pretty cheerless situation (orphanage with a drunk in charge, for example!) I would have been a bit miffed.
Ah, but look what happens when you go against established authority! That seems to be the message in Deathly Hallows: where the first book celebrated the whole idea that Harry Potter was different, the last one shows that "all was well" because in the end he conformed and became a poster boy for the WW!
Alison
It seems to be that quite a few of Tom Riddle's cohort were against the status quo, including Tom Riddle himself. I know if I'd been a young Riddle, suddenly finding out that you'd been known about all your life by the WW yet hadn't been taken away from what appears to have been a pretty cheerless situation (orphanage with a drunk in charge, for example!) I would have been a bit miffed.
Ah, but look what happens when you go against established authority! That seems to be the message in Deathly Hallows: where the first book celebrated the whole idea that Harry Potter was different, the last one shows that "all was well" because in the end he conformed and became a poster boy for the WW!
Alison