OOP: A Room at the MoM

[Melinda Leydon]

No: HPFGUIDX 66006

ccampboyle wrote:
> 
> Doesn't DD tell Harry that the pain he is feeling about Sirius is
> something LV is incapable of feeling, or words to that effect? I'm
> wondering if the power he has that LV lacks is empathy.

ME:

I keep coming back to Harry's compassion and the great love he feels for
others despite the fact he's been denied that love all his life.  I can't
help but feel it has something to do with that.  Even when Bellatrix was
taunting him about Sirius, she said, "Did you love him?"

It was Harry's surge of emotion for seeing Sirius, which I took as love,
that was the reason Voldemort couldn't stay in Harry's body.  I haven't yet
latched on to a theory about it, but it is nagging inside my head.

Melinda