Does Harry have a death wish? (formerly OOP-thoughts/questions esp. Prophecy)

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No: HPFGUIDX 61567

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "chappysmom" <DBoyken at a...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dally1025" 
<dally_1025 at h...> 
> wrote:
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> > Anyway, the phrase "neither can live while the other survives," 
> > really got me confused.  Does it mean that Voldy can't come back 
> full > force unless he kills Harry?  Does it mean that Harry won't 
> ever be > able to enjoy life (it appears to be getting worse and 
> worse every > year for poor Harry) fully until he kills Voldy???  
> 
> ------I think yes, definitely, Voldemort can't have his "life" 
unless 
> Harry dies, and He has to die for Harry to have a real life--only 
V 
> doesn't know that because he doesn't know that part of the 
prophecy. 
> He know's Harry's a threat--just not how much. The first half of 
that 
> sentence: "Either must die at the hand of the other". To me that 
> means that (1) Harry's got to kill Voldemort because nobody else 
is 
> going to be able to (climax of book 7?), but also that (2) Nobody 
> else is going to be able to kill Harry EXCEPT Voldemort. The death-
> eaters weren't going to be able to actually kill him if they'd hit 
> him with any of those avada kedavras. 
> 
> The thing that worries me is the word "either"--how is she using 
it? 
> Does that mean "one" must die at the hand of the other and then 
the 
> survivor will be free from this mystical connection? Or does it 
mean 
> that "each" must die at the hand of the other, in which case Harry 
is 
> doomed at the end of book 7 because they'll kill each other at the 
> grand finale? The word "either" has been worrying me all night.

Yeah, in my post (#61524), I wondered about this too.  Harry's got 
some real motivation for death now... Luna might be a nutter at 
times, but I think her observation about the veil is right on.