Dumbledore's Philosophy (WAS: MAGIC DISHWASHER: Spying Game Philosophy

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No: HPFGUIDX 81634

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Iggy McSnurd" 
<coyoteschild at p...> wrote:
> In GoF, AD has a look of triumph in his eye and said that one 
hurdle was
> overcome.

Not exactly. He said that "Voldemort has overcome that particular 
hurdle" (paraphrased - don't have the book in front of me). 
The "hurdle" was the protection that Harry's mother left on him.
He did not sound happy about that part.

> Therefore, the love Harry's mother felt for him now also
> courses through LV...

Yes, to a point. She never felt love towards Voldemort. I find it 
hard to believe that the protection will work the same way there.

> I think that something Harry does in their final confrontation 
will "unlock"
> that dormant love that lies in LV's body, and it will purge Tom 
Riddle of
> the evil and hatred within himself that forms the Dark Lord.

This would be too sappy of an ending to my mind. I think that 
Voldemort/Tom Riddle is an inherently evil person (just see how he 
behaved when he was only 16). He cannot be transformed into a good 
person, regardless of his blood. But it is possible that just like he 
could not bear continuing to possess Harry at the end of OoP, because 
of Harry's emotions, likewise, having Harry's blood will somehow 
weaken him due to the inherent contradiction between his evil soul 
and the blood he took from Harry.

> I also think that if Harry shows mercy to LV, and that's the 
turning point,

I can't see Harry showing mercy to Voldemort. But obviously LV can't 
be killed in the normal fashion, as he is immune to death. So he will 
die in some unexpected way - akin to how Harry destroyed Tom Riddle 
in CoS by destroying the diary.

> "Because..." Harry said, wiping a trickle of blood from his 
forehead, "I
> couldn't.  I knew Tom Riddle was in there somewhere... before you 
became
> him... you had to be..."

Oh please. He has met Tom Riddle. He was that kid who set the 
basilisk on muggle-borns, who framed Hagrid, who possessed Ginny, who 
so enjoyed seeing Harry bitten by the basilisk that he was going to 
sit and watch him die slowly and painfully, who killed his family 
just for the heck of it.

Tom Riddle *is* Voldemort. They are one and the same. It is not a 
Star Wars like story where the evil guy has a good past. Tom Riddle 
is inherently evil and therefore will have to be destroyed.

Salit