OOP : What Harry possesses in aboundance

[hamradicke]

No: HPFGUIDX 66196

Like everyone else I couldn't follow every mail on the list, so 
perhaps this is redundant, but I'am wondering about the following:
I've read quite a few times, that the other room in the MoM contains 
Love and that this is, what Dumbledore refers to, when telling Harry 
that he possesses something in aboundance. I think it's not love 
exactly, but mercy or charity. This theme of mercy and charity versus 
degrading others, hatred and revenge is recurring a lot. 

When you look at Harry's friends you see what he choses: they are all 
more or less outside the social field. The Weasleys are poor, 
Hermione is somewhat of a teacher's darling, Neville, who is shy and 
unsure and now Luna, who clearly is living in a dreamworld. Not 
exactly the most popular friends you can have in school. But Harry 
likes them. He is even friendly to those, who annoy everyone else 
like Moaning Myrtle. He has this "helping thing" Hermione notices. 
Decency and forgiveness come naturally to him. Remember this: he even 
lets Wormtail go: 
"Harry" whispered Pettigrew, shuffling towards him, hands 
outstretched, " Harry, James would have understood, Harry..he would 
have shown mercy.." (after the scene in the pensieve we know that 
this might not have been the case)...."Then you should have died!" 
roared Black. "Died rather than betray your friends, as we would have 
done for you!" Black and Lupin stood shoulder to shoulder, wands 
raised. "You should have realised", said Lupin quietly. "If Voldemort 
didn't kill you, we would. Goodbye Peter." Hermione covered her face 
and turned to the wall. "No" Harry yelled.... He sees Wormtail as 
somebody pitiful. The others obviously do not.

On the other hand we see in the beginning of OoP Dudley returning 
from bulling little kids. We have seen in GoF probably Lucius Malfoy 
and friends ridiculing muggles, we come to know that James and Sirius 
were bulliying Snape. We have Draco and his Slytherin-Gang making 
worse then fun of others.... They don't show mercy or charity. And 
Voldemort, naturally worst of all, is for instance ordering Wormtail 
in GoF "to kill the spare one". No mercy at all.

And Harry, in the end he wants to help Luna look for the things 
everybody is stealing from her around the schoolyear. 

I'm even wondering if this was not one of the reasons (apart from the 
protection), Dumbledore lets Harry stay with the Dursleys. To make 
him more humble. Harry is a long way away from his father, being 
himself constantly on the brink of the social outcast himself (a 
parselmouth, the fourth wizard in the Triwizard-Tournament etc).

I wonder if this is something important in his emotional developement 
towards being an able opponent to Voldemort. Perhaps a choice waits 
for him somewhere in Book 6/7.