Tired of ads?
Join today and never see them again.
Advertisement - Guide continues below
Love
Love is super powerful in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2—after all, it's the only reason Harry's alive. His mother's sacrifice cast a protective charm on him that lasted until his seventeenth birthday, and it was definitely key in fending off Voldemort's Killing Curse.
Given all that, it's really no wonder that Dumbledore thinks love is basically the most important thing in the world. Whereas Voldemort is mostly fixated on death (or rather, avoiding death) and doesn't give a hoot about having love in his life, Dumbledore is of the mind that dying is really no big deal, but living without love in your life…well, that's a true tragedy.
Different strokes for different folks, we suppose, but we know which side we're on.
Lily Potter's love is obviously the most powerful example of love in the whole story—it protected Harry against a Killing Curse, for crying out loud.
Snape's love for Lily is the big game-changer in this story: If he hadn't loved Lily so much, Harry wouldn't be alive. Case closed.
Join today and never see them again.
Please Wait...