Dumbledore's 'Plan' for Harry

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 79274

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "hermionegallo" 
<hermionegallo at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "njelliot2003" <nelliot at o...> 
> wrote:
> > In the chapter The Lost Prophesy of OoP, Dumbledore tells Harry 
> > about his plan for him. But what is the plan? The only plan I 
heard 
> > was to save Harry's life by using the blood link/charm of his 
Aunt 
> > Petunia. That part of the plan succeeds...but after that I 
couldn't 
> work out what the rest of DD's plan for Harry entails. 
> > 
> >> Nicholas who-thinks-there-must-be-more-to-the-plan-but-either-
> DD/JKR-
> > doesn't-want-to-give-it-away-yet-or-he-missed-something Elliot
> 
> 
> That's the big one bugging me, too.  I've been wondering if the 
plan 
> was to keep Harry alive long enough to learn all he'd need to learn 
> to be able to fight Voldemort to the death; what if Dumbledore 
> interpreted the prophecy to mean that they'd both die?  If that was 
> the case, then loving Harry too much would certainly qualify as 
> interference.  How icky, I know, but Dumbledore does say that he 
> caught himself caring more for Harry's present happiness more than 
> the tremendous number of faceless and nameless lives that were at 
> stake... That could indicate that his plan was to sacrifice one 
life 
> in exchange for many many lives.
> I'm also wondering if there's still not enough information for us 
to 
> determine what the plan was.  
> hg

I have too much to do and not enough time and I'm sure one of these 
days my head will explode.  I probably need to reread OoP for the 
third time, just so all of the detail will start sifting into its 
proper place.  

I may be forgetting something or have overlooked something, but it 
seems clear to me that Dumbledore is powerful enough to kill 
Voldemort. He had his chances to do so in the Dept of Mysteries, but 
chose not to.  He did say that merely taking Voldemort's life would 
not satisfy him.  And that there are other ways to destroy a man than 
by killing him.  

Could Dumbledore not do so because of Vmort's link to Harry?   Or 
could he not do so because he interprets the prophecy to mean that 
only through Harry will Voldemort be truly defeated, never to rise 
again?  

Marianne