Does Dumbledore love Harry?

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 124787


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lupinlore" <bob.oliver at c...> 
wrote:

Tonks_op:
> > And I think it is important to make a distinction between *love*  
> > the feeling of affection which DD has for Harry, and *Love* the  
> > highest power which is different. Love the power is a choice as 
> > Scott Peck said in his book "The Road Less Traveled". It can   
> > also include affection but does not have to. It is the type of 
> > love one can have for one's enemy. 

Lupinlore:
> I agree, Tonks, that their is a distinction between "love" in the
> ordinary human sense and "Love" in the divine or spiritual sense.  
> For the sake of clarification, let me see that I intended my 
> questions to deal only with love in the human sense.  Does DD love 
> Harry in a human(fatherly/grandfatherly) sense?  The question of 
> spiritual/religious love or Agape is important but a different 
> thing than what I'm trying to get at here.
 
Geoff:
We've discussed this before and I think there is more than the 
twofold distinction you make.

I pulled this piece out of a posting I sent in message 
110643:           
"C.S.Lewis attempted to tackle this in his book "The Four Loves" when
he went back to the four Greek words: eros, philos, agape and storge
and shows that each reveals a different facet of the idea."

Eros is sexual attraction, agape is the love which you designate as 
spiritual love, philos is brotherly love (CDL dubbed it also as the 
love between friends - comradeship maybe) and (I think) storge is a 
family love. So Dumbledore's feelings could fit into the last named 
(or even possibly philos).


Geoff 
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