Clues in COS (was Re: Dumbledore's integrity)

[Wanda Sherratt]

No: HPFGUIDX 79966

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "samwise_the_grey" 
<samwise_the_grey at y...> wrote:
> Now, now, don't dismiss it too soon. The way I read that scene is 
LV 
> was counting on DD not to kill Harry. 'You kill me you'll kill the 
> boy too' as it were. He's taking a hostage now that he's been 
backed 
> into a corner. 
> 
> Clearly DD's decisions are effected by his fondness of Harry. Do 
you 
> destroy LV and save the WW at the cost of one life? It would be 
the 
> practical, ultimately good thing (assuming DD really could kill LV 
> while he possessed Harry). Did DD ever consider doing it? It 
doesn't 
> appear so.
> 
I don't know if it's possible to be sure.  I took it the other way - 
that it was a trick.  Voldemort had some plan of escape, or knew the 
spell wouldn't hurt him, but he was trying to trick Dumbledore into 
finishing off Harry for him. Perhaps he just isn't sure if it's 
possible for him to kill Harry, he's tried and failed a number of 
times now and it's too risky, so he wanted to get Dumbledore to do 
it.  That way, any repercussions would hit HIM, not Voldemort.

Wanda