I honestly do not know what she means! Because if I were going to pick the thing that seems lost, it's the love part, not the people hurting each other part. It's easy to see how JKR sees people interacting with each other (often badly), but it's hard to imagine exactly how she pictures the idea of love *except* as a big dramatic sacrifice. And yet that seems to lead to ruin at times too, like with Sirius.

Can Harry ever show that impressive a capacity for love? Because that would seem to suggest he would be able to find love for Snape, Voldemort and Draco--people like that. Or else all he'll have to do there is forgive them and it will be his great love for his loved ones which isn't really that impressive of a thing. Most people in canon do that. Draco seems to have plenty of capacity to love his loved ones. What's special about Harry?

I wonder if it's tied to the Slytherin "problem" being that they choose to save their skins, as contrasted to the Gryffindor recklessness in running in to sacrifice themselves. I hope that's not supposed to be the big thing there, because I don't really think that's love and I'd hate to think that that kind of thing will be that important, especially since it seems like Slytherins are quite capable of love and sometimes effect me more than the good guys on that score.