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capri0mniYou know, it seems nearly every time the American Broadcasting Corporation has nothing to do but throw in the towel when it comes to the ratings battle for Saturday night (as they did last night, when the NCAA Basketball "Final Four" games were running on CBS), they repeat broadcast the first Harry Potter movie.
I've never seen it in the theaters, but I've seen it, or at least, flipped over it, about four or five times on my small screen (and, omigosh! didn't they all look so young, back then?).
Anyway, I happened to flip to it toward the end, last night, when Dumbledore is sitting by Harry's bedside, in the infirmary, and explaining why that evil wizard, whazzisname, crumbled when he touched Harry's skin:
Yeah... yeah. Yadda-yadda-yadda, and so forth. You know, just once (okay, to be honest, a dozen times or so would be nice, too), I'd like to hear, in all these stories, at least some explaination as to why love is so powerful, and why evil must crumble before it, even if that explaination is justtechno- magi-babble. And I would give each writer shiny bonus points, and a chocolate chip cookie, if she or he could come up with a different answer per story.
Something like: "The bond of love unites people, so that when someone loves you, it's like you're fighting two-against-one. And people who choose the path of evil cut themselves off from everyone, so their powers are halved."
...Something like that. Love is more than a wishy-washy palliative against the world. There are real consequences to it, and real responsibilities that go along with it. It deserves to be treated with more respect than some warm-and-fuzzy deus ex machina.
You know?
I've never seen it in the theaters, but I've seen it, or at least, flipped over it, about four or five times on my small screen (and, omigosh! didn't they all look so young, back then?).
Anyway, I happened to flip to it toward the end, last night, when Dumbledore is sitting by Harry's bedside, in the infirmary, and explaining why that evil wizard, whazzisname, crumbled when he touched Harry's skin:
It was all because of the Power of Love; Harry's mother's mother-love, and her Most Noble Sacrifice[tm] impregnated itself into his very skin. And we all know that Evil cannot withstand Love.
Yeah... yeah. Yadda-yadda-yadda, and so forth. You know, just once (okay, to be honest, a dozen times or so would be nice, too), I'd like to hear, in all these stories, at least some explaination as to why love is so powerful, and why evil must crumble before it, even if that explaination is just
Something like: "The bond of love unites people, so that when someone loves you, it's like you're fighting two-against-one. And people who choose the path of evil cut themselves off from everyone, so their powers are halved."
...Something like that. Love is more than a wishy-washy palliative against the world. There are real consequences to it, and real responsibilities that go along with it. It deserves to be treated with more respect than some warm-and-fuzzy deus ex machina.
You know?
