The magic power of love. Was: BANG! You're dead! ( no thanks)

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Ivan Vablatsky <ibotsjfvxfst at y...> wrote:

> He was hereditarily burdened, a sick man. Did you know that 
> Hitler was possessed?..." 
> The author states further on that he was never again contacted 
> by the Gestapo.
> 
> This to me proves that Liberation above all liberates one from 
> hatred, fear and ignorance. 

Yes... And I suppose that all this talk will lead to how we are 
supposed to pity and sympathize with Hitler because he was a bitter 
man.  I'm sorry but I find that a bit hard to take.

Fact is that the Christian message of loving one's neighbour is a 
hard pill to swallow.  

The New Testament if one looks at it just as a story (and of course 
the hundreds of stories patterned after it) makes this idea 
compelling.  

Question remains can Rowling make her story compelling?  I think we 
won't see any thing that makes so much sense.  Already she has shown 
a low to moderate desire of depicting the exact evils Harry and his 
world are experiencing.  What does Voldemort want?  I know what the 
Pharasies wanted and what Pilot wanted.  I know their motivations.  I 
know what the Temple merchants wanted.  I have no idea what Voldemort 
or the Malfoys or Lestranges want.  They are not people with 
feelings.  Rowling relies too much on our understanding of this theme 
and story.  We're steeped in it. She expects us to be doing all the 
work.  Fact that she refrences it doesn't make her work profound.  
She has to put in more effort.  Give Harry's love some form.  


> JK Rowling has said that she doesn't believe in ordinary magic, but 
> she does believe in the magic of love. 

Just as cheesy a statement as "Harry followed hot on his heels".  I'd 
forgive the trite use of metaphor in everyday speech if she didn't 
also apply it to her novels.


> but the undeniable reality of Love as a magic force more wonderful 
> and more terrible than death, than human intelligence, than the 
> forces of nature. And I add: than hatred, than the greatest evil. 
> And this is the inheritance promised to us if we succeed in going 
> the Path of Liberation!


Sorry Hans but not every one believes what you do.  It is deniable.  
I think very much so. Hate is very strong.  But I did like the 
treatment in Star Wars.

Frankly, your path to Liberation is IMO not the only way to seek 
God.  Bravery is not God's only gift.  Hard work and loyalty are real 
human strengths. The kind that can build great things.  

So "undeniable"? Hardly! It is up to JKR to SHOW us this rather than 
tell it.  If she wants to postulate the theory through her characters 
she has to prove it will work by developing them.  Until I see some 
development beyond the cheap refrencing to standard stock characters 
I'm holding onto the idea that Hitler was a very bad man.  He was 
nasty and I'm not going to forgive his ass.  He wasn't possessed by 
the devil, he was just mean and perhaps crazy.

Golly