I don't see Harry dying

[Wanda Sherratt]

No: HPFGUIDX 72678

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "susanbones2003" <rdas at f...> > 
> 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?
> 
Well, it's a new idea for me, and I'm still thinking about it.  The 
HOW is a difficult question - it's what I call the "mechanical" part 
of the story, and since Rowling is in charge of the world she's 
created, it's always possible for her to invent some new mechanism 
that we can't foresee. But I'm sure of one thing: Dumbledore already 
knows all about it, and how it will work.  I realized one thing 
about his conversation with Harry at the end (and I'm going a bit by 
memory here, because my daughter has the book now).  When he said 
that the power that Harry possesses is so overwhelming that at the 
mere hint of it, Voldemort fled his body, I always assumed that the 
power was Love.  Frankly, I found that a little maudlin.  Then I 
remembered:  the moment when Voldemort fled Harry's body was when 
Harry was thinking that he was going to die, and he would be with 
Sirius again.  I thought that it was the feeling of love for Sirius 
that repelled Voldemort.  But that's not what was happening.  As he 
thought of Sirius, Harry began to accept Death.  It wasn't just "Oh, 
the pain is so bad, I wish I were dead," it was "Yes.  I *will* die -
 for Sirius, to see him again."  It was just a split-second, but it 
was enough, and Voldemort couldn't stand it.  I don't know how it 
affects him, but it does, and I'm sure we'll get more explanation of 
how this works later on.  But I'm convinced that that is how it's 
going to work in the end.

Wanda