[HPforGrownups] Harry's Power

[Sue Porter]

No: HPFGUIDX 78479



Del, wrote:
<Big snip because it was long>
>- it's a power Voldemort detests so much he can't reside in a body
>full of it : it was the joy Harry felt at the idea of seeing Sirius
>again that kicked LV out of Harry's body. And that joy came from that
>deep hope that Harry nurtured, that the people who go through the
>veil are still alive somewhere somehow. Moreover, Hope is the worst
>enemy of any tyrant : as long as people keep hoping that things can
>get better, they can't be crushed. They can be isolated, tortured, or
>whatever, as long as they have hope, they keep fighting. So for
>someone like Voldemort, Hope would be the worst feeling people can
>feel, because it keeps them fighting against him, no matter how
>powerful he gets.
>
>So what do you think ? Am I completely off-track or what ? Shoot
>away !
>
>Del
>
Sue writes:

Gosh Del, I think you are right!

I have been thinking over and over that 'love' didn't seem to be quite the 
right emotion for that paragraph. It just didn't fit somehow.

I agree that Harry's mother may have give him some protection in sacrificing 
her life for his, but the 'hope' emotion is definitely a pervading emotion 
of Harry's psyche and all the meetings he has had with Voldemort. Even 
though Harry has many problems and other emotions to deal with, I don't see 
any evidence yet that he has lost hope that things will get better. Even 
though he now knows that he will either have to defeat Voldemort or die 
himself, he has not just given up. He doesn't yet know what to do, or how he 
will do it, or even what the outcome will be, BUT there is no loss of hope, 
just a struggle to accept his fate of either being killed or killer.

So, no bullets from here, in fact I will stand beside you and help fend off 
the sharpshooters! :)

Sue

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