You're an incurable optimist if you think you can make him that person again.

[And an evil evil little man for considering traumatizing Arthas Narvin Arthas and Narvin both with such a thing.]

It's an incarnation of him that's long gone, I think. [The Time Lord metaphor is particularly apt in this case, Narvin thinks. Arthas the Death Knight might as well be a different regeneration from Arthas the Paladin.]