Loving the Dark Lord was Re: [HPforGrownups] Hobbsian worlds; Crime & Punishment

[Kemper]

No: HPFGUIDX 145837

On 1/2/06, Bruce Alan Wilson <bawilson at citynet.net> wrote:
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> elfundeb:
> "Instead, I think Harry will discover that the key to vanquishing
> Voldemort is love, exemplified by mercy. Voldemort will understand
> that he is wholly dependent on Harry's mercy.  And Harry, being
> pure in heart, will grant it."
>
> BAW:
> Harry can't love Voldemort; nobody can love Voldemort.  But, he
> CAN love Tom Riddle.  I have written and posted here a little
> scene in which Harry appeals to what is left of Tom underneath
> the Voldemort persona.  It ends with the Order finding Harry
> embracing a weeping young man, who--if his eyes were not swollen
> shut, his nose all puffy, and his face covered with snot and
> tears--would have been quite handsome.  Harry says to them,
> "Voldemort is no more.  But I'd like to introduce you to my new
> friend--Tommy Riddle."

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Kemper now:
I agree with elfundeb.  Mercy is a kind of love.  Maybe it's a agape's
sibling.
I don't know.

But I do know that showing love takes on many guises.  You show love to your
partner differently than you show love to your enemy.  One is romantic while
the other is merciful.  Mercy doesn't look like goo-goo eyes, doesn't sound
like sweet nothings, doesn't feel like tender touches, doesn't smell like a
bouquet of roses.  Mercy is compassion which is love.

In OoP, Voldemort coiled away from Harry show of love for someone else
(Sirius).  Voldemort was on the fringes of that love and he had to get
away.  Imagine how love (mercy) will affect Voldemort when the full force of
Harry's love (mercy) is upon him.

Mercy will be the water that melts Rowling's wicked witch.

Kemper


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