Not getting this one.....

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 143246

There's a section in HBP I've been taking at face value but it 
suddenly doesn't make sense.

Dumbledore spelled out for Harry why he is lethal to Voldemort, that 
Voldemort not only singled him out, but gave him the ability to 'see 
into his thoughts, his ambitions,...even understand the snakelike 
language in which he gives orders." (chap. 23, p. 477, UK) 

OK, got that part, the power transfer.

Dumbledore then goes on to tell Harry it's remarkable that he's 
never been seduced by the dark arts, nor to join Voldemort. Harry is 
indignant that Dumbledore would even suggest such a thing because 
Voldemort killed his parents. Dumbledore agreed by saying 'you are 
protected, in short, by your ability to love...the only protection 
that can possibly work against the lure of power like Voldemort's." 

Huh?!?

Wouldn't it actually be anger at Voldemort for killing his parents 
that keeps Harry from joining him (and anger at Snape as time goes 
on)? Hatred of the dark arts that Harry has learned along the way 
from Hagrid, Dumbledore, Lupin, Sirius, James? Those are reasons 
alluded to in text for why Harry isn't interested in joining 
Voldemort.

Taking it further, anyone who IS attracted to the dark arts or who 
has joined Voldemort--is Dumbledore saying *none* of them have the 
ability to love? That all have been 'lured' by Voldemort to join him 
because they are deficient in some way to begin with?

And the biggest thing--Harry's ability to love may protect him from 
Voldemort, but it appears to make it worse for everyone around him. 
His parents, Sirius, & Dumbledore have all died trying to protect 
him. And instead of feeling more and more angry at Voldemort for 
these deaths, who is really behind all the events to a greater or 
lesser degree, Harry instead hates Snape!

I suddenly feel like I'm missing something big, or there's a gap 
between what Dumbledore is saying and what his words actually mean. 
I don't know if there's a leap in logic that needs to be made or 
Dumbledore's words are foreshadowing for something more to come, but 
as it stands now, Dumbledore's reasoning seems incomplete.

Confused!Jen