About a messy post, . . .

[Angel Moules]

No: HPFGUIDX 85772

Iris wrote:                                                         
                                                                     
> > 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).

Carol wrote:
> 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.

Angel adds:
I'm tending towards a 'Dark is Rising' type ending, where Harry slips 
off to another place.

What are the possible endings for HP?
He dies - LV also
He dies - LV wins
He lives - leaves the WW
He lives - lives miserably in the WW
He lives happily ever after.

[Angel considers: He lives HEA with Ginny, and they have lots of kids 
that look like James and Lily - Ginny has eyes like James, doesn't she?]