Why does love have to be bad/sappy/ugly?

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No: HPFGUIDX 91437

Kristen wrote:
> We have all discussed this in recent threads where everyone gags 
> themselves with a spoon (ha ha) whenever it is mentioned that Harry 
> may use love as the final weapon against LV.  I am not a sappy 
person 
> myself, I admit, but I don't see anything wrong with the love thing.
> 
> When I think about it, I think about Expecto Patronum.  
<snip>
> I think that this may lead to the same weapon that could defeat 
LV.  
> It could also be why we learned so much about how to cast Expecto 
> Patronum.  We all know that JKR doesn't tell us things we won't 
need 
> later on, therefore, I conclude that the mechanics for putting 
> together the patronus will be needed later on.
> 
> I am hoping that Harry will learn about how to put together spells 
in 
> his NEWT classes.  He will have more detailed studies over the next 
2 
> years and if he learns how to build his own spell and he knows that 
> his ability to feel emotion for those around him is his greatest 
> strength, then maybe he can build his own spell with those tools to 
> defeat LV.  
> 
> I don't condsider that sappy.


Neri Now:
I agree about practically everything. I'd also mention that there is 
a clear similarity between the Patronum Harry uses to banish the 
dementor in the beginning of OotP and the way he banishes LV out off 
his mind at the MoM by the end of OotP. Look at this: 

OotP, Ch. 1: the dementor banishing:
"But there was no happiness in him . . . the Dementor's icy fingers 
were closing on his throat — the high-patched laughter was growing 
louder and louder, and a voice spoke inside his head: 'Bow to death, 
Harry . . . it might even be painless . . . I would not know . . . I 
have never died'
He was never going to see Ron and Hermione again —
And their faces burst clearly into his mind as he fought for breath.
'EXPECTO PATRONUM!'
An enormous silver stag erupted from the tip of Harry's wand"

OotP, Ch. 36: banishing LV:
"He was gone from the hall, he was locked in the coils of a creature 
with red eyes, so tightly bound that Harry did not know where his 
body ended and the creatures began: they were fused together, bound 
by pain, and there was no escape — 
 And when the creature spoke, it used Harry's mouth, so that in his 
agony he felt his jaw move . . .
'Kill me now, Dumbledore . . .'
Blinded and dying, every part of him screaming for release, Harry 
felt the creature use him again . . .
'If death is nothing, Dumbledore, kill the boy . . .'
Let the pain stop, thought Harry . . . let him kill us . . . end it, 
Dumbledore . . . death is nothing compared to this . . .
And I'll see Sirius again . . .
And as Harry's heart filled with emotion, the creatures coils 
loosened, the pain was gone;"


Notice the similarity?

I'm not sure what Power X is. Call it love or whatever you prefer. 
Maybe it is something so primal and mysterious it doesn't even have a 
proper name in spoken language, only many vogue approximations such 
as love, self-sacrifice, ancient magic and so on. The important thing 
is that it works for Harry like a mental patronus. This "patronus" is 
completely immune to LV's powers, in a similar way that the patronus 
is immune to the effect of a dementor. And (very conveniently) there 
is a connection between Harry's and LV minds. So what happens if 
Harry constructs the mental patronus in his mind and sends it through 
the connection into LV's mind? 

And since Harry's real patronus has the shape of a stag, I won't be 
surprised if his mental patronus will turn out to have the shape of a 
large dog.

"go get'im, Padfoot!"

OK, maybe it will be just a tiny bit sappy. I won't mind 8-)

Neri