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

[Joris]

No: HPFGUIDX 80077

> --- 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.

wanda:
> 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.

I always assumed DD would kill Harrym not because of a trick which made DD
think he could kill Voldemort doing so (he would know it was a trick then
because he explained Harry on the end of OoP his fear) or because he could
really kill Voldemort that way (he would have surely done so! & it would be
a contradiction to the prophecy) but because the possessed!Harry would
endanger DD and/or other people so DD has to kill Harry to save
himself/those other people.

Yoris/Ender