Harry's Protection (was Re: Questions)

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 119322



> snow:
> Another great thought from Kneasy! You always get me thinking and 
I believe I found an almost undetectable play in wording (don't know 
what else to call it) from Jo. Lets look at the entire statement 
made by DD:
> 
> OOP- "There is a room in the Department of Mysteries," [
], "that 
is kept locked at all times. It contains a force that is at once more
> wonderful and more terrible than death, than human intelligence, 
than forces of nature
It is the power held within that room that you
> possess in such quantities and which Voldemort has not at all."
>
> <snip>
> 
> In the end my suspicions would be that immortality is the force 
that can be more wonderful and terrible and the power is `pure' self-
> sacrificing protection.
> >
> 
> Kneasy:
> A different take to mine, but that's not important - working up a 
> theory that you're happy with and are willing to defend is.

Valky:
And also mine, Snow, but you your post engages me anyway, thankyou 
for your perspective.
I am starting to come around on the proposal that *Life* is the 
power behind the door. Or as I see it, The *spark* of life. It is an 
energy, and thefore a force, it has a generative rate beyond 
exponential, one would have to make up a word to describe it. It is 
greater and more terrible than death, and because it propagates 
beyond reason it is more wonderful and terrible than human 
intelligence, the forces of nature pale to it because it is their 
master.
Finally, Voldemort is no longer human, he has disconnected from the 
creator source, in an attempt to bypass it's rules and become 
immortal. It is possible to imagine that he has extinguished his 
*spark of life* (which is given by and part of *the creator force*, 
and so must inevitably return to the creator or *god*) and replaced 
it with some artificial reproduction, like for example a "complex 
spellform" constituting him a *life* battery. 

Only two problems I see with this:
1. This is a very complex plot twist I am imagining, and could 
possibly take another seven books to describe.
2. Somewhere around the above quote from OOtP Dd says that this is 
the force that saved Harry when LV was insde him possessing him in 
the MOM. Inescapably, we know that it was Harry's *Love* for his 
friend and Godfather, Sirius, that LV encountered before he fled. 
Unless we are just being chucked a big smelly Red Herring there we 
have to assume that *Love* plays a part.
 
In spite of the problems, if I assume that JKR is a genius, well I 
can do *that* easily, and that she can explain an extravagant notion 
like the one I have just proposed, in just *two* highly 
entertaining, and accessible to the average joe, novels, then I can 
explain away the second problem because many theologies describe the 
*spark of life* eternal force as *Love* anyway.