I don't see Harry dying

[susanbones2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 72640

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Wanda Sherratt" 
<wsherratt3338 at r...> wrote:
> 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

I understand your logic, that from the text, as far as we can tell, 
no one is really trying to help Harry learn whatever it would be that 
can defeat LV. It makes sense from DD's speech that Harry already has 
what it takes. And that would be the ability to love selflessly. But 
what I am wondering and at this point would only be an educated guess 
on almost everyone's part is how is the ability to love so much you'd 
give up your life, how is that going to be used to defeat LV? All I 
can think of is something like invading his body and forcing him to 
feel what sacrificial love is like and hopefully he'd just crumble. 
Do you have any thoughts on this?
Jennifer