OOPS: Voldemort's ghostly future?

[ccampboyle]

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When I first thought about the Voldemort/ghost issue, I also thought 
about the possibility the LV is *already* a ghost. It brought to 
mind the ending of "The Sword of Shannara" in which the hero defeats 
the villain by forcing him to realize that he is already dead. Hmmm.

And I tend to agree: I am more and more convinced that Harry will 
die in Book 7. That doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad ending -- 
look at the Chronicles of Narnia.

Silmarien

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "stardreams04" 
<queenofthecampus at h...> wrote:

> Reading this post brought another question to mind. When Lord 
> Voldemort was defeated by Harry the first time, did he become a 
> ghost? Certainly his will and magical powers kept him clinging to 
> this plane of existence. However, because he had somehow modified 
his 
> soul with the Dark Arts, Voldemort was able to rebuild a body for 
his 
> ghost to inhabit. In the books we are only told that Voldemort's 
> power broke that fateful Halloween and that he fled as a barely 
> living spirit. 
> 
> In any case, it seems like a distinct possibilty that Voldemort 
could 
> become a ghost and reincarnate AGAIN if he is not killed properly.
>  
> > -- if Harry *chose* to walk through the veil, 
> > 
> > -- then he might be able to carry Tom Riddle through with him to 
> the other side despite Tom's fear of death.
> 
> Me:
> In Shayla's Fall of Childhood fic (best fanfic on the net - read 
it 
> if you have not yet!), Harry learns that Avada Kedavra acts like a 
> magical "scythe" that severs a person's soul from his body with no 
> possibility of becoming a ghost. Personally, I always felt there 
was 
> a nice logic to this, because there obviously must be many curses 
> people can use to kill others - spells that stop people's hearts, 
> burst organs, stop breathing (think of that purple slash of light 
> that struck Hermione). Yet why is only Avada Kedavra classfied as 
an 
> Unforgivable? From the examination of the Riddles' bodies we learn 
> that the curse does no physical damage. The only way it CAN kill, 
> therefore, is by forcibly ejecting the soul from the body. Perhaps 
if 
> Harry uses AK on Voldemort (instead of having LV's curse merely 
> rebound on himself) then Voldemort would truly die.
> 
> On the other hand, I don't really know if JKR would want Harry to 
be 
> able to cast such a dark curse. There would be a certain poetic 
> justice to it, but I'm not sure if it would harmonize with the 
image 
> of Harry as a GOOD hero. I'm starting to believe more and more 
that 
> Harry is going to be dead by the end of Book 7 - certainly walking 
> through the veil would accomplish that.