Dept. of Mysteries, "Love" room.

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 129988

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eggplant107" <eggplant107 at h...> 
wrote:
> "Geoff Bannister" <gbannister10 at a...> wrote:
> 
> > No, we won't all get diabetes because it's real,

Eggplant
> That may well be true but the question is will it make a good story?
> To be blunt Harry Potter needs more gratuitous violence, like the
> wonderful graveyard scene in book 4. I don't want the series to end in
> a love fest, I want it to end in a bloodbath. I don't want Voldemort
> to be loved to death in book 7, I want him to be disemboweled. 

Geoff:
The series doesn't have to end in a lovefest or with gratuitous 
violence which I always see as a copout anyway. I do not believe that 
the books will not end with a saccharin-riding-off-into-the-sunset-with-
swelling-music end.

Real "agape" love shows itself in other ways. As examples within the 
Potterverse, we see Lily standing between Harry and Voldemort 
regardless of her own safety; we see Harry, Hermione and Ron looking 
out for each other in the "Philosopher's Stone" and Ron risking injury 
or death in the chess game; we see Harry risking injury or death in 
the "Goblet of Fire" to accede to Cedric's last wish. In "Lord of the 
Rings" we see Sam and Frodo watching each other's backs and Sam in 
particular supporting Frodo at the end to get him to Mount Doom, each 
knowing that they risk injury or death.

And in the real world, we have examples such as Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 
one of the leaders of the German Confessing Church who was in Canada in 
1939 when war broke out and oinsisted on returning home to support his 
fellow believers in the hell of Nazi Germany and sailed on the last 
ship back knowing that he was risking his life in so doing and who was 
executed in 1945, one month before the Nazi surrender and the 
numberless nameless folk who in war situations have risked their won 
safety to rescue and support their fellows.

There are plenty of ways in which love can play a major part in the 
Wizarding World without Harry going up to Voldemort and kissing him so 
that he runs from the scene in case anyone sees him blushing.....