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

[T.M. Sommers]

No: HPFGUIDX 64856

"T.M. Sommers" wrote:
> 
> 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.

I forgot to mention how this fits with the prophecy: H can't live while
V survives (as a ghost).