The force in the room

[pippin_999]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "davewitley"
<dfrankiswork at n...> wrote:

> What we have not really considered in this debate is *whose* love 
> Harry is full of, and, speaking more abstractly, what is the 
> relationship between the force in the room and people.
> 
> I think that where JKR may be going with this is the role of faith 
> in making love work.  Hermione and, implicitly, JKR criticise Harry 
> for assuming that he has to be the one to get out there and 'save' 
> people.  It works OK (though is perhaps unnecessary) in the lake in 
> GOF.  It is disastrous at the end of OOP.
> 

Pippin:
I think you're on to something there. I've thought for a while that
Dumbledore's failure was in not trusting that the force (I'm tempted
to capitalize, but I won't -- take that, George!) would make Harry 
strong enough both to resist possession and to bear the burden
the prophecy laid on him. Instead he tried to 'save' Harry from
these things by keeping him in ignorance, with unhappy results.

Pippin