Dept. of Mysteries, "Love" room.

[madorganization]

No: HPFGUIDX 129908

> "niekycrins" <n.crins at p...> wrote:
> 
> > why would this room, containing a force that is needed
> > to conquer VM, be closed and apparently protected?
> > Why not "unleash" it on LV while he was in the DOM?
> 

Eggplant:
> I hope it's more than just love, otherwise the story could get so
> sweet we'd all get diabetes.  Love probably has something to do with
> it but there must be something more than that because Dumbledore
says
> it is not only more wonderful than death it is more terrible too.


Alisha:
I don't think this necessarily means that it must be more than love.  
Have you ever been in love?  Really truly in love?  It's a terrible 
thing.  
Or how about this.  Have you ever really loved someone and then lost 
them?  It's the most terrible thing in the world.  But if this type
of 
loss wasn't associated with love, love itself wouldn't be so 
wonderful.  The most wonderful things in the world are the ones we 
know are temporary.
I think when DD says that love (if that's what he's talking about) 
is "at once more wonderful and terrible than death," he's thinking 
specifically about Tom Riddle.  He has never loved or cared about 
anyone.  Because of this, he will never have to experience the pain
of 
losing someone (it's easier to die than to watch someone you love 
die), but he has also never experience the wonderful joy of loving 
someone and having them love you back.