[HPforGrownups] Re: JKR's dealing with emotions - Talking about Death

[Karen]

No: HPFGUIDX 147508


On Thursday, February 2, 2006, at 07:33 PM, Kemper wrote:

> But a question to those who've expressed similar losses at similar 
> ages:  isn't
> Harry supposed to have this great depth of Love, more so than any other
> Witch or Wizard and presumably much more then any of us Muggles and 
> Squibs.
> I don't mean to discount anyone's loss.  I, too, have suffered.  But 
> Harry
> is not one of us, he's not an Everyman (Ron is), Harry is a Hero.  
> With so
> much Love, you'd think Harry would experience loss to a heightened 
> degree.
>
>

kchuplis:

Personally, I think Harry has a greater sense of others. He can't seem 
to not care what happens even to people he doesn't know. This seems to 
be the heightened ability Harry has. He "saving others" deal. We see 
that impulse again and again. It is not that there aren't personal 
feelings involved, but for instance, the water task in GoF, there was 
just no way that he could stand to let anyone stay. It doesn't matter 
that they *wouldn't* have died but that it was THEM and not the contest 
that was foremost. When he finds out about Neville's parents, that 
night he realizes how many people's lives have been ruined and that it 
was due to LV and resolves that it can't continue. Love encompasses 
more than just love.

But I don't think it is so much personal love that is being referred 
to. Plus, I don't think that his grieving indicates "less" love. 
Rather, perhaps that he became attached so quickly to Sirius show 
heightened love. Grief is for us, not for the one who died.