Love again, but this time as a truth (long)

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No: HPFGUIDX 123180


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "johnbowman19" <jhnbwmn at h...> 
wrote:
> 
> Sorry this isn't a direct reply to any particular post on this
> subject, just my feelings
> There has been a lot of speculation in posts on what is behind the
> lock door in the MOM, and I would like to add my two cents. I have
> never thought that love is contained behind the locked door, simply
> because love is not something that can be contained. It has no 
matter,
> no substance, and I have yet to see magic disembody emotions or
> feelings from person and lock them away into another space. 


But the other rooms contain abstract things - time, thoughts, death. 
If time can be put in a room, why not love?

>Also love is far too sappy a destruction for the
> vilest "person" alive. Killing with kindness is not a fitting death
> for someone who has murdered countless people as well as Harry's
> parents. Love does not seem to fit with Harry's personality either.
> Remember he may not have killed Sirius when he had the chance, but 
>he
> still wanted to. 

Well, we don't know what will happen, of course, but we can carefuly 
extrapolate from what has already happened. And what has already 
happened is that Harry expelled Voldemort because of the love he felt 
for Sirius. This isn't speculation - we are told this explicitly. So, 
we *know* that, sappy or not, Voldemort - on some level or other - 
can be fought/resisted via love. 

Regarding Harry wanting to kill Sirius. The fact that Harry is human 
(and therefore prone to the whole spectrum of human emotions) doesn't 
mean that his love is flawed. Think of Lily - she was a good person, 
but she wasn't perfect. Harry and we see this in the pensieve scene. 
But still, her love for Harry saved him. 

On the deepest level, I think of Harry as Everyman. Through him JKR 
is trying to say that love, *human* love, is redemptive. 


Naama