About a messy post, . . .

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 85763

Iris wrote:                                                          
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> 1) Thanks to Harry, Good and Evil will come to a kind of status quo 
> (neither Harry nor Voldemort can defeat the other without dying, and 
> we already saw how they happened to neutralize each other because of 
> their brother wands).


Sorry for the huge snip and thanks for your thoughtful response to my
post, but I had to respond to this one item. The Prophecy does *not*
say that neither Harry nor Voldemort can defeat the other without
dying, which virtually guarantees an unhappy ending with the hero dead
along with the villain. JKR would never reveal her plans so overtly
and I for one would stop reading: Okay, Harry has to die in order to
destroy Voldemort. Why bother to read more?

What the Prophecy actually says is "either must die at the hand of the
other for neither can live while the other survives" (OoP Am. ed. 841).

In other words, one will have to die at the hand of the other, not
both will kill the other. And if one survives, he will be able to
*live*--as he has evidently not yet done.

I said something like this in a longer post about how Harry might
cause Voldemort to die without becoming a murderer himself, but it
seems to fit well here as well.

Carol, who is trying to type and talk on the phone at the same time
and hopes this post is coherent