[HPforGrownups] Re: I don't see Harry dying

[Robert A. Rosenberg]

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At 21:13 +0000 on 07/11/2003, Steve wrote about [HPforGrownups] Re: I 
don't see Harry dying:

Then there is the theory that in the final battle Harry and/or
Voldemort will be reduced to mere muggle. The cost of winning the war
will be the loss of all magic in their lives. For the greater good,
Harry will forsake friends, magic, and happiness, and accept his fate
as a muggle. A truly sad ending for our hero.

This is in line with the "Cosmic Balance" (Of Good vs. Evil) Mythos 
Scenario I've referenced in the past. In this type of Scenario, the 
"Ultimate Good" Hero is born as a direct consequence of the 
Existence/Rise of an "Ultimate Evil" Villain. The Hero, as part of 
his mission to eliminate the Villain, must lay his life on the line 
and die so as to prevent his own continued existence (or at least his 
status as an active as opposed to former/inactive representative of 
"Ultimate Good") after the Villains defeat/death from 
causing/allowing the rise of a replacement "Ultimate Evil". The lose 
of Powers (as the result of an All Out "Final Stroke" that "Burns 
Out" the Hero) is one of the standard methods used in this 
Scenario/Mythos to remove the Hero (since while alive and otherwise 
unaffected he is unable to function again in the "Champion of Good" 
Role he had when battling his opponent).

At 23:18 -0500 on 07/11/2003, you wrote about Re: [HPforGrownups] Re: 
I don't see Harry dying:

>Steve wrote:
>>  So perhaps, by some devious arrangement of Dumbledore's, he allows
>>  Harry to be killed, for in that moment of Harry's death (by some
>>  definition), Voldemort becomes mortally vulnerable. Example; maybe
>>  Dumbledore feeds Harry an elixer of Phoenix tears just before the
>>  final battle with Voldemort, and this allows the Death Curse to kill
>>  Harry, but before the life force leaves him, the Phoenix tears kick in
>>  and bring Harry back. During that in-between twightlight between life
>>  and death, some one gives Voldemort the final and total irredeemable
>>  deathblow, and once Voldemort is gone, Dumbledore quickly revives Harry.
>
>I have had the feeling for quite some time that unicorn's blood will come
>back to haunt us.  I have also always wondered if the drinker would be
>cursed if the person drank it unknowingly (was unconscious and practically
>dead).  Just the way Firenze talked about unicorn blood in the first book
>made me think that this would come back someday, and I can see someone being
>so desperate to save Harry that they go out and procure unicorn blood so his
>life can be saved.  But would he forevermore live a cursed life, a half
>life, since he had no idea the unicorn was being killed for him and had no
>idea what he was drinking?  This post on Harry drinking phoenix tears made
>me think of this again.
>
>Kelly Grosskreutz

I will need to go back and reread that section to see if the 
Death/Killing of the Unicorn is needed for the Blood to be useful. If 
not, I think the curse is more an result of taking the blood from the 
Unicorn than the act of just drinking it. Why not have it usable 
curse-free if the Unicorn Donates it just like is the case with 
Phoenix Tears.


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Bob Rosenberg