Does Dumbledore love Harry?

[Bethany]

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Lupinlore: 
> If nothing else, I think the way JKR has set up the story kind of
> obviates it, since she implies that there isn't any way for the
> Wizarding World to be destroyed (i.e. Voldy to win) without Harry
> going along with it.  That is, it isn't a choice of Harry or the
> WW, since the story implies that Harry can only survive by saving
> the WW. 
>  
> That means, though, that DD could be faced with a truly hellish 
> fate if he really loves Harry.  Lose Harry and save the WW, or 
> lose Harry and keep the WW.  Either way he loses Harry.


Bethany again:

I guess I don't know what you mean by "Either way he loses Harry".  
I mean, couldn't Harry defeat Voldemort without losing his life?  
There's nothing in the prophecy that we know of "for sure" that says 
if one dies the other has to as well. I'm more of the belief that 
when/if Harry defeats Voldemort, he will lose the powers that he 
shares with him. I don't think Harry has to necessarily turn to the 
dark side to stay alive.  But, if it is fated that way, then 
Dumbledore will definitely be losing someone very dear to him, and 
yes, someone he loves.  

No one can convince me that Dumbledore does not love that kid.  
Harry's strength, his sheer will to survive through all the 
heartache he's been through - we all love him, how could Dumbledore 
not?  I especially see it in the end of book five when he speaks 
with Harry so patiently after Harry is raging and throwing things in 
his office.  It's very apparent to me.  But, as I said before, love 
and sacrifice go hand in hand.  In the end, love won't matter as 
much as duty and the greater good...