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

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 123184

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. Even magic
has its limits. 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. 

A fitting end for Voldemort in my eyes would be reciprocity, but you
cannot kill anyone he loves because he has never loved anyone
according to JK Rowling. I however believe he has loved someone, and
that someone is himself. His self love has made him afraid of death
which in turn made him undergo numerous transformations to become what
he is. So the ultimate justice for Voldemort would be to kill him
because he has spent his whole life trying not to die. 

What's worse than death? Why never really living of course, and this
is what Voldemort has done. He has never really lived, because he was
so intent on not dying and living by lies. This brings me to what I
think is behind the door: Truth, or a Truth. The Truth can be a
substance as in an object or as the abstract like an idea on paper.  

I base this off of two quotes. The first of which comes from the
chapter called "The Lost Prophecy". It is the quote in which DD
introduces the locked door:   
"There is a room in the department of Mysteries
 that is kept locked
at all times. It contains a force that is at once more wonderful and
more terrible than death, than human intelligence, than the forces of
nature." 

When I first read this i immediately recalled the last chapter of SS
when Harry asked DD why Voldemort went after his parents in the first
place. In DD's reply is this nugget:

"The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be
treated with great caution." 

Great caution as in being locked up every hour of everyday? Great
caution as in being so secure that a knife (that can open doors
Alohamora won't) can't open it? 
What initially made me remember the second quote was the word
terrible. It is repeated in both passages, and is given the same kind
of dualistic qualities that DD gives to the power in the first
passage. Harry also has this power in such qualities that Voldemort
could not dwell in a body so full of it. 

Sherry now:

Excellent post, John, even if I do disagree with it.  I for one, have not
heard truth mentioned as the thing behind the locked door before.  However,
is the truth something that should be locked away?  I think not.  Truth
should be open, proclaimed from the rooftops, available to examine to find
out if it is indeed the truth.  And we are told specifically in OOTP, that
it is Harry's love for Sirius that drove Voldemort out.

One thing about which I do agree with you  is the idea that Harry will not
kill Voldemort with kindness toward him or by loving him, Voldemort.  If
love is the thing that will vanquish the dark lord, the thing Harry has in
such great supply that Voldemort does not know, I doubt that it will be
Harry loving him.  But it may be Harry's love for the people in his life.
His love for Sirius has already protected him.  What about his love for his
friends?  His love for his friends is well documented; we are shown it over
and over.  At the beginning of OOTP, it was thinking of his friends that
helped him create the patronus, even though he was upset with his friends at
the time and not particularly happy.  I agree with those who speculate that
if love is the solution, it will be in some kind of sacrificial way, or
something that is far beyond the sappy Valentine's Day type of fluff.  Not
like, I love cheese cake or I love movies.  it will be something deeper.
that kind of love has changed the world in the past, and I don't have any
problem believing it can change the WW, too.

Sherry G