LOVE Saves the Day in the end WAS Re Dumbledore's Pensieve

[Marianne S.]

No: HPFGUIDX 137146

Saraquel wrote: please, please post something on how *Love saves the day*
for Harry. I've tried twice to get this discussion going and no-one
has posted a reply. For my last attempt see message 136797 No AKs –
just the ministry room of love. I think this is such an important
thing to discuss. I've seen stuff on how Harry needs to toughen-
up/learn occlumency/learn legilimency/learn avada kedavra – but I
haven't read (admittedly, it might have been posted but missed by
me, if so please point me to it.) anything on how we are
interpreting DD's insistence that *Love is all you need.* I really
think that this is the way JKR is going to resolve the plot, and I
for one would really like to discuss it. Anyone else think like me


 please?


Marianne S.: Yes, I think like you!! I know I'm an idealist, but I'm proud of
that fact! Consequently, I really think JKR wants us to be
a bit idealistic when seeing Hope for Harry and Love. We know from her
interviews that she wants us to see that Ginny is the girl for Harry (which
I am glad to say I DO see) and she wants us to see that love came overcome
and overpower evil, like we know from Harry's parents' sacrifice (particularly
Lily's) and we know from the scene with Bill/Fleur and Remus/Nymphadora, just
to name one. We also see how Ron and Hermione can get past their
rather childish behaviors such as attacking canaries and Lavender snogging 
when it's really important (and hopefully, after the way we saw HBP end, those
"how can I make the other person jealous without actually taking the risk
of revealing my feelings" behaviors will be in the past). And, just as his 
mother's love was a great protector of Harry, hopefully he will see that his
love for Sirius, his two best friends, Ginny, Dumbledore, etc. is a strength
and what is necessary to defeat Voldemort, not learning how to do 
unforgiveable curses.

So.... these are my thoughts about how Love Can Save the Day.
(of course, none of this is canon, or even close, but it is what I would
like to see happen).

a) The love of Ron, Hermione, and Ginny gets him through facing the
difficult truth of what happened in Godric's Hollow. (I am not
sure who to credit it to, but I loved the reminder that Harry may
not have to remember what happened consciously, but the memory
can be stored in his brain like preserved film from a hidden camera that
he can retrieve and observe, like an outsider, in a pensieve. I also
agree that's not a trip he should take alone.)

b) Petunia will admit to loving her sister, Lily. Realizing this is the last
time she will ever see Harry and that her love for Lily, buried deep
all those years, is needed now... she gives Harry some Very Important
Information about things she knew.

c) Dumbledore's love for Harry will be shown by Dumbledore willing
Fawkes to Harry. Fawkes will be on hand with more power to heal than
ever because he's carrying in his tears the hope and faith Dumbledore
has in Harry. Dumbledore will also leave Harry his pensieve, complete
with bottled memories he left before the trip to the cave that explain
exactly what the agreement between he and Snape was.

d) Love will work by Snape choosing not to turn Draco over to Voldemort
because he knows that, even with Dumbledore dead, Voldemort will
still punish Draco and his mother because Draco was unable to kill
Dumbledore himself. So, Snape, feeling a fatherly kind of love or maybe
just pity for the first time ever, will do everything he can to protect
Narcissa and Draco, especially if other death eaters have killed Lucious
in Azkaban. Snape will also reveal to Narcissa that he is a HALF blood
not a pure blood, and she will realize the error in the way she has
raised her son and how she was believed to think that the only respectable
wizards can be pure blood. (In a utopian post Voldemort wizarding
world, Narcissa's views will completely turn around, much like how
Arianna Huffington's political thinking reformed. Narcissa will become
an activist for non-pure blood rights, includinghalf bloods, muggle borns, 
werewolves...)

e) Harry will find out that Snape and his mother were friends and maybe
even that Snape loved Lily, and that it was Snape's love for Lily that
caused him to TRULY be remorseful. Snape will somehow admit that
he always projected his hate for James onto Harry because it kept him
from seeing how much Lily is also in Harry. Nevertheless, somehow
Harry will realize that yelling "no unforgiveable curses for
you, Potter" and other things Snape said truly were instructions to
Help him. The two will come to an understanding that, based on how
Harry learned so well from Snape's old textbook, that Harry could have
learned if Snape had bothered to actually teach him anything instead
of singling him out and treating him with such contempt. I do think,
though, that if we get a Redeemed Snape, a Snape who remembers
that Harry's mother was someone that he cared deeply about,
 will in turn use that love that he had for Lily to do her the
ultimate favor -- sacrifice himself in order to save Harry.

f) An avada kedavra or any other unforgiveable curse will not work
on Voldemort and his death eaters because they're not effective
when for righteous reasons. However, with all the horcruxes gone,
someone (perhaps we'll really see the extent of Ginny's power here,
or it could be something cleverly devised by Hermione or even
Snape) will develop some way of having wands join together to
create some sort of Ultra Patronus. This would be something that 
uses thecombined love of everybody present and everyone who
has ever loved Harry, and will be the thing that defeats Voldemort.

And that's where I'll end this before everyone thinks I'm battier than
Trelawny. I look forward to Saraquel's and others comments/
prognostications about Love.

Marianne S.