What's in the locked room?

[sawsan_issa]

No: HPFGUIDX 89053

Kneasy wrote:
"It's Life.
It's what Lily gave to Harry with her sacrifice.
"Ah!" you may say, "but Voldy wants to be immortal. How can Harry be
the opposite?"
Life is a lot more than avoiding death."
 
Think about it; it's Life-force vs. Death Eaters.

Very interesting Kneasy. You know, I had been thinking along those
lines as well after my last post about the DoM because of a few things
I had noticed;

First off, "more wonderful and more terrible than death": well when
you think about it life can be wonderful and terrible and even moreso
than death. Some people would rather death instead of the lives they
live. Life can be wonderful, and a new one is always a wonder and
wonderful. 

Second: Voldemort wants to live forever, but at the same time he is
not completely dead either. He also is said by Hagrid to "not have
enough human in him to die." and yet he is not where he wants to be.
He wants to live forever, not survive forever as he has been surviving
so far. Also in PS/SS I think it was Firenze who said that anyone who
drinks unicorn blood will be cursed with a half life... and so Voldi
does, but he is not content at just that. I think being immortal and
being alive forever is not the same. When you are immortal, you are
dead, but somehow surviving on earth. Think Vampires and such. Though
he wants to live forever, he needs to be dead I guess, and yet Harry
is so full of life. His mother gave her life to save his and he lived
even after Voldemort tried to kill him. He is the boy who LIVED, which
has him famous in the Wizarding World. Also, it is wonderful that his
life had hurt a strong dark wizard, but the boy who lived has many
losses in his life. His life is both more wonderful and more terrible
than death, if you want to think about it in that sense. Voldemort
cannot stand to be touched by such a strong life force, especially one
that once diminished his own. Voldi wants the Sorceror's stone to have
eternal life, and Dumbledore says something along the lines of " To
the well organized mind, Death is like sleeping after a very long
day." and that 'people often want what is not good for them' (poorly
paraphrased sorry it is in the last chapter of the Sorceror's stone.)
Both of those lines go along with what he says to Voldemort at the DoM
in Chapter 36 of OotP: "Indeed your failure to understand that there
are things much worse than death has always been your greatest
weakness." Also in that same chapter, Voldi in snake form coiled so
tightly around Harry and his scar was hurting.

"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...'

Ok so that brings me back to my point, Harry has a hard life full of
suffering, but in spite it all, he has a strong life force and is
willing to accept death as long as he helps other lives. 

THanks Kneasy for pointing that out, I agree with you, and we will see
 (hopefully soon) :P