[HPforGrownups] What will Dumbledore tell Harry?

[Audra1976 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 50000

In a message dated 17/01/2003 17:04:57 Eastern Standard Time, 
andrewhogue2001 at yahoo.com writes:

> Any thoughts about what Dumbledore will have to tell Harry?

I think "everything" could include what his parents' jobs were and why 
Voldemort had no problem killing his dad, but said that his mother "needn't 
have died," and *why* Voldemort wanted to kill Harry in the first place.  In 
the conversation in the hospital wing at the end of PS/SS.  Harry asks why 
Voldemort wants to kill him and Dumbledore answers that he can't tell him 
now, but he will know one day when he is older.

As for what the reason is, I know JKR will probably throw us for a loop and 
come up with something we never thought of (if that's possible), but I favor 
the theory that killing Harry has something to do with the immortality 
Voldemort has always been seeking.  When Harry has the Philosopher's Stone, 
Voldemort implies that if Harry gives him the Stone and joins him, that 
Voldemort wouldn't kill him.  "Better save your own life and join me," he 
says.  This could have been a lie, but I think it does mean that if Voldemort 
had the Stone, and therefore could have eternal life, he wouldn't have to 
kill Harry.

Audra


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