I agreee that love and power can go together, and that love sometimes leads to disaster in HP.
I said that choosing love was a help in the labyrinth, but one has to know what love is to be able to choose it! Merope, for example, loved Tom Riddle Snr. and abused her power to get him. She chose power not love. If she'd chosen love she wouldn't have forced herself on Tom.
Dumbledore told himself he was using power in the service of love, and he tried to do this and succeeded sometimes. But power was his temptation - he even wanted to have power over his own death and exploited Snape to get it. As you say, the plan didn't quite work. (His concern for Draco was genuine, though.)
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Date: 2008-07-08 09:03 am (UTC)I said that choosing love was a help in the labyrinth, but one has to know what love is to be able to choose it! Merope, for example, loved Tom Riddle Snr. and abused her power to get him. She chose power not love. If she'd chosen love she wouldn't have forced herself on Tom.
Dumbledore told himself he was using power in the service of love, and he tried to do this and succeeded sometimes. But power was his temptation - he even wanted to have power over his own death and exploited Snape to get it. As you say, the plan didn't quite work. (His concern for Draco was genuine, though.)