The C.S. Lewis "division" of "love" is, FTR, a profoundly Anglocentric process. It's not so much that the Greek language has "four different meanings for 'love'" so much as Greek having four different words/concepts which, in some cases, may all be translated into the English word "love". The storge/philia/eros/agape meme is popular because it allows "love" to be weasel-worded more freely under the linguistic cover -- and makes the suggestion that there is a "real meaning of 'love'" or that concepts dictate reality less obviously bullshit.
That said, yeah, I think you're quite right about the confusion among HP 'shippers of all sorts over just what sort of "love" is so important in Harry's (extraordinarily normal) saving-the-world story. Given the breadth and depth of relationships and loyalties of all sorts that Harry develops over the course of the series...yeah, I'm not sure why it would be so popular to assume that romantic love would be the key point. (Actually, I have a hypothesis, but I'd need to do a great deal of forum-diving to get a better sense of whether it works and I really don't want to do the amount of drinking that it would take to get me through five years' worth of rabid 'shipper forums.) |