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

[Tanya Swaine]

No: HPFGUIDX 88969

At 20:10 16/01/2004 -0600, you wrote:

>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


Tanya here

I could be mistaken, leaving room for error.  But this type of love is 
called agape love, it's
as you said, but it is also unconditional.

But the theory at the end.  Not heard that one before, but it's a possibility

Tanya

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