How is Harry good? [Re: Harry and Tom]

[Josh Warren]

No: HPFGUIDX 110555

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Neisha Saxena 
<neisha_saxena at y...> wrote:
> This has been an extremely interesting discussion.  
> 
> But, it causes me to wonder not so much how Tom went
> bad, but what is it about Harry that causes him to
> have such a clearly defined sense of good?

Let me take you back to PS/SS at the end... when DD is explaining 
things to Harry:

"Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot 
understand, it is love. He didn't realize that love as powerful as 
your mother's for you leaves its own mark. Not a scar, no visible 
sign... to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who 
loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever. It is in your 
very skin. Quirrell, full of hatred, greed, and ambition, sharing his 
soul with Voldemort, could not touch you for this reason. It was 
agony to touch a person marked by something so good."

In other words... his mother's love is not only something that serves 
as a basis for Harry's protection... it is a built-in thing. He's 
stuck with it. I think the 'magical' inference we are supposed to 
draw is that Harry literally survived on his mother's love... just 
just through LV's AK, but also the next 9 5/6 years of his life. 

Yes... if Harry had been attacked on Nov 31, we would have had an 
interesting tie to 9 3/4, but I digress...


Hmm... looking back at PS/SS leads me to my next post...

Josh