unselfish love vs. sacrificial love (was: Harry's protection)

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 113194

Geoff:
We're back to the old problem that "love" is a catch-all word meaning
anything from "I love ice-cream" to the sacrificial love we are
talking about.

This is where the four loves mentioned by C.S.Lewis come in - eros,
philia, storge and agape.

We are really looking at agape. 
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> Snow:
> 
> This section of your post brought to mind several thoughts. The 
first pertaining to Dumbledore's statement, "I cared about you too 
much," said Dumbledore simply. "I cared more for your happiness than 
your knowing the truth, more for your peace of mind than my plan, 
more for your life than the lives that might be lost if the plan 
failed. In other words, I acted exactly as Voldemort expects *we* 
fools who love to act. 

Tonks here:

Agape love also involves choice.  One can love as Dumbledore has out 
of affection and feeling.  One can also with affection or separate 
from it,  CHOOSE to love.  And the choice to place another's welfare 
above your own without regard to feelings, is the type of love that 
allows one to love one's enemy. This is a very, very rare form of 
love.  I also think that it is a form that we will see of Snape.  
Snape does much of his protection of Harry out of duty to 
Dumbledore, but there might come a time when he does more than his 
duty.  

Tonks_op