LV can self-destruct (was Killing != Murder)

[Dondee Gorski]

No: HPFGUIDX 170944

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Phyllis Stevens" 
<catlady1949 at ...> wrote:
>
> Not quoting anyone here because there is a point that no one has 
mentioned. Many think that the opposite of love is hate, but in 
truth, it's fear. So I can see where Harry might only need to get 
Voldy in a position where he is extremely afraid, and his death will 
be assured.  Love always conquers fear so this will mean absolutely 
no threat to Harry at all. Don't have a clue how this might happen, 
but this is my view of what will happen. We know that Voldy is 
afraid of love, so maybe, somehow, Harry makes Voldy fear he must 
love to survive?
> 
> 
> catlady1949 at ...

Dondee:

I must disagree with you Catlady, I believe that love, hate and fear 
all reside in the human heart and that indiference is the opposite 
of all three.

Voldy is already extremely afraid - he is afraid of death. Just look 
at the lengths he has gone to try to escape his own mortality. He 
also fears his minions which is why he is so abusive and controlling 
of them. He is also filled with hate - he hates and fears the things 
he has no control over. The power of love is something he 
criticizes, demeans, and feigns indiference towards but really he 
fears it as well.

Voldy views love as a weakness and a vulnerability and decided long 
ago as a little boy in an orphanage that he must harden his heart 
and deny love as a way to strengthen and protect himself. Harry has 
power that "the Dark Lord knows not" because Voldy rejected love as 
a boy and has so maligned his poor soul since then that he is now 
incapable of producing it. Any affection or attention he gives to 
his DEs is merely for the purpose of manipulation.

Harry could have hardened his heart and denied love while growing up 
in the Dursley household as a way to strengthen and protect himself, 
yet he remained open and loving (though not always towards the 
Dursleys ;)). I think this is, in part, because though he didn't 
know anything about his parents other than that they died in a car 
crash, he believed that they had loved him and that if they had not 
died that they would be together. Young Tom Riddle viewed himself as 
rejected and willingly abandoned by his parents. Sure, his mum died 
in childbirth but I bet he thinks she could have fought to stay 
alive for him.

Love does strengthen us when we are afraid and can help us to master 
our fears, I agree with you there. The fact that Harry loves and is 
loved will give him the strength and courage he needs, as it always 
has, to defeat Voldemort.

Cheers, Dondee