[HPforGrownups] OoP: End of Book 7 and Harry's Scar

[T.M. Sommers]

No: HPFGUIDX 64829

julievette72 wrote:
> 
> Now, wouldn't it be a shocker for possibility 1 and 2 to be
> combined? What if Harry vanquished the Dark Lord, say? by pushing
> him into the Black Veil or into the room containing love (as has
> been suggested in earlier posts) and then decided it was his time to
> go too? I can see Harry, bearing the marks of a horrible fight,
> exhausted and longing to be with his loved ones (Lily, James, Sirius
> and other members of the Order who had met their untimely end), say
> his farewells to Ron and Hermione and walk straight into the Black
> Veil. It would not be a sudden death like if he were to sacrifice
> himself by pulling V into the Black Veil; instead it would give the
> book more closure I suppose.  Harry would be able to be happy in his
> afterlife. There would be no slanderous newspaper, no indiscrete
> stares at his scar, no assassins trying to kill him and no evil
> wizard plotting his demise, just peace. He would be reunited with
> what we know he yearns for the most, his family (PS/SS - Mirror of
> Erised).  This would make the ending, while utterly tragic and sad,
> happy in a sense.
> 
> On a side note, after Harry defeats Voldemort maybe his scar will
> burn up thereby closing the link between them and completing his
> destiny.

Almost exactly what I have been thinking, with the difference of the
scar:  

After V is killed, he becomes a ghost, but is still connected to Harry
by the scar.  V is also filled with rage and agony at being dead, so H
is in constant pain (he never kept up his occlumency lessons).  This
constant pain, added to the psychological scars from the war, induces
him to pass through the veil.  Not unlike Frodo going west.