Prophecy Contradiction

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 78996

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "elizabeth1603" 
<elizabeth1603 at y...> wrote:

> 
> No, Harry and Voldie can't duel. There's also the slilghtly more 
complicating 
> fact that Voldemort has made himself immortal, which is why many 
people 
> have speculated that Harry will bring down Voldemort with what 
Dumbledore 
> reffered to in OOP, the prophecy chapter, as a force more terrible 
than death, 
> one that Harry posses and Voldie does not. 


Voldemort isn't immortal anymore, though.  In GOF he tells the 
DE's: "But I was willing to embrace mortal life again, before chasing 
immortality.  I set my sights lower...I would settle for my old body 
back again, and my old strength."  So, that was his plan since he 
couldn't steal the SS/PS and become immortal.

I DO wonder about the wand thing, whether they can duel. Dumbledore 
states in GOF, when asked by Sirius what happens when a wand meets 
its brother: "They will not work properly against each other...If 
however, the owners of the wands force the wands to do battle...a 
very rare effect will take place."  Then he goes on to describe 
Priori Incantatem.

That seems ambiguous though. Do wands of the same core 
work "improperly," which indicates any number of problems might 
develop, or will it only result in *priori incantatem*?  Also, I'm 
wondering now whether Voldemort would have been able to kill Harry in 
OOTP when he AK's him---can a wand kill the person who owns the 
brother wand, or is it just the wands themselves that can't "do 
battle?"  We do know Voldemort can use his wand to Crucio Harry.

I've just been doubting Voldemort as a powerful villian recently b/c 
he's seemed so inept around Harry, but now I'm wondering if his wand 
doesn't actually work on Harry, perhaps because he owns the brother 
wand, or perhaps some result of "the curse that failed."

Back to do more research on wands in the Fantastic Post section! Jen