The Emotion

[KLMF at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 72799

In a message dated 7/24/03 7:12:01 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com writes:


> > > --- 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?  ?
> 

I concur with conclusion that the emotion is love.  As another poster 
commented, a whole load of other feelings are directly the result of, or otherwise 
linked, to love. It's a very complicated thing and IMO well deserving a place in 
the Department of Mysteries!  

A situation I haven't seen mentioned yet that suggests that the emotion is in 
fact love (and if it has already been brought up, I'm sorry) is the scene in 
Dudley Demented where Harry is unable to produce a fully formed patronus until 
he despairs of ever seeing Ron and Hermione again  - quite the opposite of 
what was going thru his head as he thought about dying and *seeing* Sirius in 
death! - and then, as the images of Ron and Hermione comes to mind, WHOOSH, the 
patronus is produced.  Ron and Hermione are sources of happiness for him and, 
like Sirius, people who evoke that feeling of love in him.

Karen F


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