The emotion

[marephraim]

No: HPFGUIDX 72758

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "bookraptor11" 
<DMCourt11 at c...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Buttercup <cathio2002 at y...> 
> wrote:
> > --- Richelle Votaw <rvotaw at i...> wrote:
> 
> > > At the end of OOP, when Voldemort is trying to possess
> > > Harry, he is thinking that he wants to die, then
> > > thinks to himself that he will be with Sirius.  When
> > > he thinks of Sirius, his heart fills with emotion
> > > and Voldemort is forced to leave him.  
> > > 
> > > Now, my question is what emotion filled Harry's
> > > heart there?  ?
> > 
> > Buttercup replied:
> > I think it was Harry's fully surrendering to
> > death--not fearing it, knowing that death isn't the
> > end. He would be with Sirius and released from the
> > pain.
> 
> Me:
> 
> That sounds exactly right to me.  Voldemort is very frightened of 
> death, we know. They are fused together in some way, and Harry has 
> just spoken to Dumbldore in his mind, saying "Let him kill us... 
end 
> it, Dumbledore..." (OOP  p.816). V is afraid D will kill the two 
of 
> them; it's something he'd do if one of his followers were merged 
with 
> someone he was trying to kill.  He doesn't dare wait and see if D 
> will act.
> 
> Donna

I concur with the original poster that the emotion Harry feels which 
leads to He Who Must Not Be Named having to dispossess him (pun) is 
love. Keep in mind, grief, sorrow, guilt etc., these emotions 
devolve from love. We do not grieve those we do not love, can not 
experience sorrow for the loss of that which finds no love in us, 
and guilt is not just the recognition of having broken a rule but 
recognition of having missed the mark and disappointed our beloved. 
DD tells Harry that the source of his protection, that which his 
mother died giving him, is the fruit of sacrificial love. When Harry 
begins to desire death it is obviously out of love for SB and the 
consonant grief and sorrow he feels at the growing comprehension 
that he is gone. It is love and the fruits of love that defeats You 
Know Who, and which will prove his undoing at the end of the Arch.

MarEphraim