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HarryPotterRules1 wrote:

He has been willing to change and is still willing too  just as long as he is able to keep his power.

If by "Willing to change" you mean become a better man, then i don't buy that he is willing to change... At all! He's had plenty of opportunities to be a better man, but he just keeps choosing the dark path over the light. He's lied to/manipulated Belle many times, trying to convice her that he'd change, but it very much seems to me like he wants to remain evil.