Love again, was Re: A few random thoughts (long)

[cat_kind]

No: HPFGUIDX 123084


> Ty:
> > I sincerely hope that the power he is full of and that is lock in 
> the
> > MoM is not what most people believe is "Love"... That is so sappy 
> > not to mention ridiculous...Love is a feeling, an emotion. I hardly 
> > think that that is something you lock in a room.
> 
> Geoff:
> 
> In message 110254 on 16/08/04, I wrote:
> 
> <quote>
> Why the "ugh!"? Or are you interpreting love in the words of a 
> sentimental song?
<end quote>
> Love is the greatest force in the world. As a Christian, I believe
> that it was sheer love that took Jesus to the cross and beyond and it
> wasn't "ugh!", "icky" love. It was deep, sacrificial, strong and 
> enduring.

catkind:  I have to agree with Ty, in so far as I'll be disappointed
if the power is love, although I rather think it will be. 

I don't see a problem with love as an abstract concept being
represented behind the locked door: there will be some magical
artifact that involves or shows or uses love, just as there are
artifacts representing death, thought and space behind other doors.
If a tankful of pickled brains can be thought, why can't a tankful of
pickled hearts or something be love?

It would be disappointing, not because love isn't a powerful force,
but because it is, and everyone knows it, and it has already been done
to death in religion and books and plays and every Hollywood film in
the history of cheesiness. 

It occurs to me, though, that mostly (in Christianity for example),
the power of love is that it motivates people to do good things.  (God
so loved the world that ..., not just God so loved the world and
therefore we're all saved halleluja. )

I wonder, then, if we can expect a mechanism behind this power of
love?  Lily so loved Harry that she cast this spell, rather than the
pure power of her-love-made-tangible saved him?  Harry can beat
Voldemort because he is capable of loving and being loved, so has true
allies, whereas LV is, when it comes down to it, alone?

If a mechanism is needed, then the fact that it's to do with love
isn't so much of a cop-out. Although then nor does it answer any of
our questions about how LV can be defeated, so we're back to square one.

catkind, trying to keep its rabid atheism under control