Dumbledore's Love

[Lia]

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Tonks wrote:

Since BAW brought the bible into this...  The place in the bible to look for an example of the highest form of Love is to look at the life and person of Jesus. I think that DD shows that type of life 
 and personhood too.  If you look at DD in this way it may help to understand his motives and the deep degree to which he (IMO) does understand Love, and Love in its very highest form.
 
    
 Lia says:
   
 Pardon the snippage!
   
 The comparison of Dumbledore to Jesus is an interesting one.
   
 To be brief (for a change):
   
 Jesus gave all to gain all (for humankind).
   
 Might Dumbledore, then, have given all to gain all for the wizarding world?
   
 I think that Dumbledore does understand love, and can also feel it deeply.  I think he loves Harry very much.
   
 Somewhere in the Book of John it states:
   
 "Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends."
   
 Dumbledore states in HBP that he views Harry as a friend, doesn't he?  (Or did I imagine it?  Alas, I am at work and cannot check canon.)
   
 If so, perhaps that's what Dumbledore did.
   
 Just a few musings...
   
 Lia