Harry's Power

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 78613

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sephora063" <sephora063 at y...> 
wrote:
>  "Doriane" wrote:
> To paraphrase: 
> Hope would be the worst feeling people can 
> feel, because it keeps them fighting against him, no matter how 
> powerful he gets.
> 
> 


Sephora:
> Hi, 
> I thought your post was great and very insightful. Somehow, I like 
> this theory better than the love theory, but they are related. 
> Interesting enough, Chapter 13 of Corinthians I is the Love 
Chapter. 
> I think everyone has a pretty good idea of what it says. It lists 
> the many qualities of love. However, I think the final verse says: 
> And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest 
> of these is love. I have no idea what JKR intends, but I do enjoy 
> that there are many possibilities. I think that it might be related 
> to these three qualities. 
> One way that I can think that love can be awful is when the love is 
> unrequited. When love goes bad, all hell breaks loose. Seriously. I 
> guess this could bring up the question of whether there is such a 
> thing as good love or bad love. Love is an emotion, but it can 
bring 
> about good or bad actions. Perhaps we must diferentiate between 
> christian love (as in the Biblical text) and secular love. 

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Geoff:
(Can I first say that I am not sending from my usual email address as 
I am on a long weekend in South Wales and accessing the group via a 
friend's computer. If anyone wants to dusagree or agree privately, as 
has happened in the past, please use my uusal ontact address.

Re love: CS Lewis wrote a book called "The Four Loves" in which he 
identified  "agape" (Christian love), "eros" (sexual love), "philos" 
(love of friends I think) and I think the other (whose Greek name 
escapes me) is the sort of "clubbable" re;ationship that a group of 
guys together might have - shared interests etc.

I have commented on 1 Corinthians 13 previously. On the subject 
of "hope", this of course is commented a lot in the New Testament and 
Christoians are told, for instance, to be prepared to give a reason 
for "The hope that is in you". I realise that love is defined as the 
greatest but the three (including faith) are given as being needful - 
this may perhaps be another thread (no pun intended) in the 
development of Harry's character.