I’ve always considered the protection Harry had by Lily’s “Love” (in canon) to be essentially dark magic done by Lily. She spent her own life to cast a ridiculously powerful and specific spell of protection on her son.
I interpreted buybuy as claiming that at some point JKR or some authoritative HP encyclopedia or suchlike explicitly affirmed that there is a literal “Love Magic” in place—rather than that being just a description by Dumbledore. I let it pass, without agreeing. I’m not aware of JKR saying any such thing but nor would I expect to be, I haven’t looked and don’t especially want to hear it. If there is literal love magic I’d hold that in the same esteem as I hold the rules of Quidditch. (Also, midichlorians never happened.)
Midichlorians were totally inoffensive by comparison to everything else in that godforsaken movie. I don’t see why a fairly advanced civilization being able to stick a number on Force potential gets nearly as much hate as it does.
I read all the Harry Potter books the first day they came out. From what I recall of Hallows… the first half was “Frodo and Sam walked a lot” but with more pouting.
Then we must have interpreted it differently. I took the existence of literal love magic as pretty firmly established by the protection granted by Harry to every good guy in the Battle of Hogwarts. I’m having difficulty imagining how anything Rowling says could make this story-breaking power worthy of any lower esteem. (And I am only thinking of the second half, which was the interesting one.)
I’m having difficulty imagining how anything Rowling says could make this story-breaking power worthy of any lower esteem.
Lower esteem? By no means. Merely more reductionist detail and less Dumbledorish drivel. Sacrificing one’s life to make a protection spell over a loved one is in no way diminished if the magic mechanism doesn’t sound like it was developed by carebears.
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I interpreted buybuy as claiming that at some point JKR or some authoritative HP encyclopedia or suchlike explicitly affirmed that there is a literal “Love Magic” in place—rather than that being just a description by Dumbledore. I let it pass, without agreeing. I’m not aware of JKR saying any such thing but nor would I expect to be, I haven’t looked and don’t especially want to hear it. If there is literal love magic I’d hold that in the same esteem as I hold the rules of Quidditch. (Also, midichlorians never happened.)
Midichlorians were totally inoffensive by comparison to everything else in that godforsaken movie. I don’t see why a fairly advanced civilization being able to stick a number on Force potential gets nearly as much hate as it does.
Upvoted primarily for the sentence in parentheses.
Wedrifid, do not read Deathly Hallows. It will disappoint you. (Personally, I was pleased; it could have been a lot worse.)
I read all the Harry Potter books the first day they came out. From what I recall of Hallows… the first half was “Frodo and Sam walked a lot” but with more pouting.
Then we must have interpreted it differently. I took the existence of literal love magic as pretty firmly established by the protection granted by Harry to every good guy in the Battle of Hogwarts. I’m having difficulty imagining how anything Rowling says could make this story-breaking power worthy of any lower esteem. (And I am only thinking of the second half, which was the interesting one.)
Lower esteem? By no means. Merely more reductionist detail and less Dumbledorish drivel. Sacrificing one’s life to make a protection spell over a loved one is in no way diminished if the magic mechanism doesn’t sound like it was developed by carebears.
OK, I’m pretty thoroughly confused. When you write
what don’t you want to hear? And what more would have to be true to trigger the hypothesis in