[HPforGrownups] Re: "More wonderful and More Terrible than Death"

[Iggy McSnurd]

No: HPFGUIDX 88968


> 
> vmonte responds:
> I agree that love is behind the door, but not just general love, but,
> the love of a mother for her child. I think that Harry and Neville
> (and perhaps even Luna) were protected by their mothers. I believe
> that they sacrificed themselves (physically or mentally in Neville's
> mother's case) to protect their children. I have a son and I cannot
> think of anything more powerful than a mother's love for her child.
> In fact I cannot think of anything more terrible than the wrath of a
> mother! I could see Mrs. Weasley sacrificing herself to save her
> children.  I wouldn't mess with her either.  Maybe what is behind the
> door at the MoM is a physical manistation of a mother's love....who
> knows.
> 

Iggy here:

I think you're on the right track, but not completely.  I don't think
it's just a mother's love for a child, since a father's love can be just
as strong.  (I know, as a father myself...)

I think that it's more like a love so strong that even death pales by
comparison.  The Christians would probably say that it's like the love
God and Christ felt for the world that allowed for the sacrifice on the
cross.  The Jews would probably say that it's the love Moses felt for
his people that he was able to save them, even in defying his adopted
family and former life.  Many Pagans would probably say that it's like
the love Mother Gaia feels for all the creatures she has given birth to.


It's a love that makes anything bearable, and by experiencing it, one
can transcend themselves.


I also have a hunch that the climax to the books will be in Harry and
Voldemort crashing through the door somehow... and Harry being bathed,
healed, and being restored by the purity of the love.  On the other
hand, Voldemort will not be able to bear it, and will be torn apart and
virtually disintegrated by the purity of it... annihilated by being
suffused with the antithesis of his being... purest love verses his all
consuming hatred.


Just a theory...

Iggy McSnurd