I don't see Harry dying

[Wanda Sherratt]

No: HPFGUIDX 72621

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Judy" <penumbra10 at y...> wrote:
 His nature would lead him to 
> confront LV once he has developed the magical combat skills, 
> however,  in Book Five he is literally bombarded with negative 
> results of rashness and unchecked emotion, beginning with the loss 
> of the chocolate frogs at the beginning of the book and 
culminating 
> with the death of Sirius.  Harry is now faced with a conundrum all 
> wrapped in a deceptively simple prophesy.
> I don't think it was for nothing that we saw Hermione challenge 
what 
> we have all been calling Harry's `nobility of spirit' for so 
long.  
> He is going to need to see the situation for what it is:  a very 
> complicated logic problem, especially since we have been informed 
by 
> Dumbledore that there are `other ways of destroying a man' than 
> simply killing him.  (US edition, Ch 37, pg 840)  
>
(SNIP) 
  I think that the final confrontation will 
> show us a self-assured Harry, making logical, confident choices 
> against a LV who is still acting from instinct and arrogance.

I think there will necessarily be a confrontation between Harry and 
Voldemort at the end, but I don't think it's going to be the duel we 
are all expecting.  Hasn't anyone else wondered when Harry is going 
to learn something about HOW to combat Voldemort?  We seem to be 
setting up for a sort of "Rocky" situation:  the underdog versus the 
arrogant superior, fighting against overwhelming odds.  But where is 
the training, the practice, the simple advice on what to do?  Why 
are the adults in charge, especially Dumbledore, so passive, when 
supposedly everything depends on Harry beating Voldemort?  I think 
it's because he knows that Harry CAN'T beat Voldemort in a duel.  No 
matter how much he learns, how hard he practices, how many times he 
practices killing spiders with AK, he can never out-hex, out-jinx, 
or out-magic Voldemort.  He can never summon up the wells of hatred 
and evil that would put enough force behind his spells to beat 
Voldemort that way.  I think the only thing that Harry can do that 
Voldemort cannot, is what Lily did - give his life out of love.  So 
this is why Dumbledore is so reluctant to do what he must do, and 
what that whole speech at the end of OotP was about - Harry has to 
learn to die.  No wonder Dumbledore kept putting it off year after 
year - he wants to spare Harry just a little longer from knowing 
what has to happen, because as soon as he learns, it will start his 
goodbye to his friends, his life, and everything that he has ever 
hoped for.  It's going to be a very tragic ending, and I don't think 
it's going to be "easy" at all.

Wanda