Harry's protection

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 112836

Snow:
> > Is it all that amazing that both Harry and Voldemort describe 
> > this same pain so similarly and yet reacts so very differently? 
> > Harry not fearing death says, "Just let us die" whereas Voldemort 
> > does not beg for such an end to his suffering. Voldemort fears 
> > death, Harry doesn't. It is the one who has no fear, of even a 
> > name, that will live.

 
Kneasy:
> Voldy fears death, seeks immortality.
> Harry accepts, almost embraces the thought of death, in this
> particular instance, anyway.
> Can this be the something that Harry has so much of that DD keeps
> mumbling on about?
> Superficially it looks like a good idea - acceptance of mortality,
> not fearing death, submission to an irresistible force of nature. 
> Then DD goes and cocks it up for us, he whitters on about the room 
> in the Ministry that contains a "force that is at once more 
> wonderful and more terrible than death, than human intelligence, 
> than the forces of nature." They've probably  got a mobile phone in 
> there, that'd match  the description - certainly the "more terrible 
> than death" bit.
> 
> I did suggest at one time that it might be Life or Life-force in 
> that room. Harry can be considered a life-affirming character and 
> Voldy, despite his quest for immortality, just the opposite. Of 
> course many insist that it's Love, even though love can have some 
> pretty nasty and destructive aspects. T'ain't always hearts and 
> flowers; it can be possessive, stifling, damaging and of course it 
> is possible to love inappropriately - evil or power for instance.
> Or maybe it's just my jaundiced view of the world.


SSSusan:
And with that segue, SSSusan begins yet again, with her spiel on 
Sacrificial Love.  [Some are sure to be running for cover just now.]

Plain Old Love, as it were, can definitely include or involve those 
kinds of damaging, stiffling side-effects Kneasy has cited.  Yet it 
seems to me that Sacrificial Love - or a willingness to die out of 
love for others - doesn't include the more negative side-trappings of 
Plain Old Love *and* has the bonus that it deals with this 
willingness to die that Harry seems to have.  Voldy doesn't have it - 
he wants to live forever - and so he would NEVER consider sacrificing 
himself, for love or any other motive.  

So I'm going with Sacrificial Love as the Power that Lord Voldythingy 
Knows Not *and* which is somehow studied in that room in the Dept. of 
Mysteries.  

Siriusly Snapey Susan