define love

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 110643

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "quigonginger" 
<quigonginger at y...> wrote:

Ginger:
> I have been following with great interest the "LV never loved" 
> thread.  Thanks to all who provided input and especially to those 
who 
> added the psych stuff (that was my minor, but that was a long time 
> ago).
> 
> I have to wonder, though, are we defining love the same?  Are we 
> defining it correctly?  

Geoff:

I think this takes us back to the old question of what do we mean by 
love? The word is a catch-all. "I love you", "I love strawberries and 
cream", "Don't you just love the way he scores points over the other 
guy?"

C.S.Lewis attempted to tackle this in his book "The Four Loves" when 
he went back to the four Greek words: eros, philos, agape and storge 
and shows that each reveals a different facet of the idea.

This is why I objected a few days ago when someone wrote something 
like "That's why I don't want Harry to win by using (ugh!) love." I  
pointed out that real love is the sort of love demonstrated by Christ 
on the Cross - not love being crooned about but real, strong, deep 
love unyielding in its aims to care for others and to put their needs 
in front. "Greater love has no man...." etc.

Unless we can decide what we collectively mean by love when we talk 
about Tom Riddle or Harry, we shall be airing our misunderstandings 
from now until Book 6 comes out. :-)