hee. and a brilliant theory it is, too >:D *pets your theory* no, really, i love the idea that he'd get to love/like/something-surely draco if they were forced into close proximity for some extended period of time, except this breaks down since harry canonically doesn't love the dursleys (and plenty of people don't love their families), but then, he doesn't desire the dursleys either... i guess.
so yah, i love it because it sounds like often enough it's true, although not always true and there must be other factors that go into why we love some people but not others, you know-- no matter how much one wishes it were otherwise, sometimes you just -hate- someone more, the more you spend time with them, and sometimes you start off liking a person and then the more time you spend with them, the less you want/like/love them. people are weird like that, and divorces strangely common -.-
this may be different somewhat with a starting point of desire being there already-- or the potential-- ust; but i suppose love can't be summoned quite -that- easily or... well... people wouldn't spend all this time moaning about how they have no one to love, right. and didn't ron & hermione have sparks before they either desired -or- loved one another? so there's this question of immediate emotion and potential and so on.
that said, i think your theory is quite clever, really >:D
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Date: 2003-07-02 12:49 am (UTC)*pets your theory*
no, really, i love the idea that he'd get to love/like/something-surely draco if they were forced into close proximity for some extended period of time, except this breaks down since harry canonically doesn't love the dursleys (and plenty of people don't love their families), but then, he doesn't desire the dursleys either... i guess.
so yah, i love it because it sounds like often enough it's true, although not always true and there must be other factors that go into why we love some people but not others, you know-- no matter how much one wishes it were otherwise, sometimes you just -hate- someone more, the more you spend time with them, and sometimes you start off liking a person and then the more time you spend with them, the less you want/like/love them. people are weird like that, and divorces strangely common -.-
this may be different somewhat with a starting point of desire being there already-- or the potential-- ust; but i suppose love can't be summoned quite -that- easily or... well... people wouldn't spend all this time moaning about how they have no one to love, right. and didn't ron & hermione have sparks before they either desired -or- loved one another?
so there's this question of immediate emotion and potential and so on.
that said, i think your theory is quite clever, really >:D