Harry experiences storgē from and towards the people who have become his family. (Little side note: some of you may remember one of the possible titles passed around for Book 6—Harry Potter and the Pillar of Storgē, which is now quite humorous in hindsight. Hell, even JKR thought it was funny.)
Liked that one, by the way. :)
I read through the analysis piece here, and I think the points are well-made; the problem of having only the single word for a very broad range of concepts ("love") does create a kind of situation of cross-purposes where people who believe it must be romantic love that would save the day end up finding that JKR has employed a different concept of it - almost a totally abstract one, of a love for humanity as a whole - to show Harry's true importance as the one who will defeat Voldemort.
Romantic love is a bit too narrow of a concept to really fill the bill, and in any case I think JKR demonstrated it has its own flaws; consider Dumbledore/Grindelwald, or for that matter, Bellatrix/Rodolphus (*shudder*), or Bellatrix/Voldemort (*double shudder*). It's a very much eye-of-the-beholder thing, whereas the broader kind, Harry's saving-people thing, as Hermione pots it, encompasses what is needed to match Voldemort's particular brand of hate and enmity. |