I don't see Harry dying

[mhershey2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 72822

 --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "susanbones2003" <rdas at f...> 
> 
> > 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?
> > 

Here is how I could see it happening:

  I think that at the end, VD's ultimate downfall will come about in 
a way very similar to the first time he tried to kill Harry, but this 
time, he will actuall die.  That is, Harry will accept death to save 
his friends, much as his mother accepted death to save him.  However, 
this time, VD has some of Harry's blood (but no protection) in him, 
and also has the "flesh of a servant", who happens to be the servant 
who owes his life to Harry, a double whammy as far as I am concerned 
for poor old VD.  I could see Harry's old protections, added to the 
fact that VD's spell won't work properly against Harry because VD has 
so much of Harry in him (follow that?) will cause the spell to 
rebound again and hit VD, this time killing him.  Maybe its too 
perfectly circular, but we still haven't seen much of Wormtail's debt 
to Harry played out, and that was a big foreshadow in PoA.

Mhershey