Outraged Harry - Love Conquers All or Not

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 149174

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at ...> wrote:
But
> internal to the story, from the perspective of Harry and the other
> characters, the concept of 'love conquers all' is worthless because
> there is no clear way to train for it and know way of knowing how to
> apply it. It seems unrealistic for Harry to move forward in the 
story
> depending on 'love' for the solution. The only logical internal
> solution is long hard training and detailed specific study. 
> 


But training and detailed specific study just isn't Harry.  It's 
never been Harry and never will be Harry.  Here is where JKR is, I 
think, a character theorist -- and really not very concerned with the 
logic or believability of her story (face it, it doesn't take much of 
a hard look for the whole thing to come apart like tissue paper long 
before this juncture).  She is interested in showing the virtues of 
certain character traits, in this case, love.  Harry is the avatar of 
love in the series, so that is the trait that will see him through, 
doubtless in ways he does not anticipate.  As the avatar of love, 
Harry approaches these problems in his own way.  JKR just isn't 
interested in showing another way -- i.e. training and specific 
study.  If she was interested in showing that way, she would have 
made Hermione the hero.  


Lupinlore