Harry & love (was: Department of Mysteries - Rooms?)

[ggershman77]

No: HPFGUIDX 71164

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Susan Smith" 
<atroposgryffin at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "T.M. Sommers" <tms2 at m...> 
> wrote:
> So, why do so many people think that Harry is filled with 
> enormous quantities of love?
> 
> <Now, A.G.>
> Perhaps it is easier to accept this-  Harry is filled with the an 
> enormous capacity TO LOVE and TO BE LOVED.  After all Hermione, 
Ron, 
> Ginny, the whole Weasley family, Sirius, Lupin, McGonnagal and 
> Dumbledore, to name just a few, have fallen in love with him in 
just 
> a few short years.
> 
> The "LOVE" notion could very well just be that Harry hungers for 
Love 
> and in turn absorbs it and other emotions like a sponge-but even in 
> this raw sense he is still more emotional than V. can hope to 
become.
> 


Harry's love comes from his experience of Death.  I posted about this 
at http://hpprogs.blogspot.com/.  The basic idea is that love 
involves giving a piece of yourself to another person, which you will 
inevitably lose when they die.  Voldemort is afraid of Death, so he 
doesnt love, so he will never have even a part of him die, i.e. 
cognize his own mortality.  Harry, who has experienced Death, is 
already un-whole, and is not afraid to risk losing more of himself 
for others that he loves.  He is capable of Love, in ways and to 
levels that Voldemort can not stand against.  Ultimately, Harry would 
give his life for something he loves, and Voldemort will not.  This 
is how Harry will defeat him.

For an elaboration, see the post entitled "Prophecy Boy" at 
http://hpprogs.blogspot.com (Harry Potter Prognostications).

Greg