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

[Susan Smith]

No: HPFGUIDX 71253

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ggershman77" 
<ggershman77 at y...> wrote:
> --- 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

<A.G.>
Yes I have read and enjoyed your rather elaborate posts.  I can only 
speak for myself and not T.M. Somers-but I was reeally trying to keep 
it simpler and more universal.

A.G.