What is Harry's Secret Weapon?

hpfgu_elves hpfgu.elves at gmail.com
Thu Apr 26 22:50:08 UTC 2007


No: HPFGUIDX 167972

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Lydia French" <lydiafrench at ...> wrote:

firefly:

<prophecy snipped>
 
> We know this means the power of Love but what does THAT mean?
> Not just the protection his mother's loving sacrifice provided but the
> power to FEEL love is definitely one explaination. It was his feelings
> of Love for Sirius that forced LV out of Harry in OOP. However, as we
> saw in GoF, in a one-on-one duel, Love is not a weapon Harry can wield
> on his own. So, the question is, in what way is Love, this "power the
> Dark Lord knows not" going to end up helping Harry in his battle with
> Lord Voldemort?

Geoff:
I don't think that you can support your hypothesis on Harry's use of love 
as a weapon on just one piece of evidence because Harry does not know 
about this "weapon" at this point in time. The duel in GOF occurs before 
Sirius' death, before Dumbledore talks about the locked room and before 
Harry learns about the prophecy.

On this occasion, Harry was fighting for his life in GOF and he was not 
expecting to win...

'Harry crouched behind the headstone and knew the end had come. 
There was no hope... no help to be had. And as he heard Voldemort 
draw nearer still, he knew one thing only and it was beyond fear or 
reason - he was not going to die crouching here like a child playing 
hide-and-seek; he was not going to die kneeling at Voldemort's feet... 
he was going to die upright like his father and he was going to die 
trying to defend himself even if no defence was possible...'
(GOF "Priori Incantatem" p.575 UK edition)

This will not be the scenario in the final confrontation. He now knows 
the prophecy and he knows that he has avoided death at Voldemort's 
hands several times; but this time the power of love is going to play a 
part in /his/ actions - not his mother's.

I"ll tell you how he does it on the 22nd July.....
:-)





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