Of wandless magic and psychological confrontation

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 95739

MadEyes:
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> Voldemort has been able to harvest these abilities since he was 
> young, and in his imminent downfall at the hands of the one year 
old 
> Harry Potter he has also transferred some of his powers. Could it 
be 
> that along with those powers Voldemort's magical mental abilities 
> and capacities where passed to Harry as well? Could Harry be able 
to 
> invade Voldemort's mind later on?
> 
> Now this is an encouraging thought; if Harry does indeed have this 
> ability, the last battle could very well be fought in a 
> psychological and emotional way, by an invasion of minds and a 
> battle of willpower, escalating to a struggle of the Dark Lords 
> hatred and Harry Potters love, a final battle of emotion. 

Jen: This is definitely the arena where I see LV & Harry in the 
final dramatic moments, not an actual battle to the death, but a 
battle for the 'essence' they have come or will come to share.

We have so many clues: The shared wand cores (symbolizing LV & 
Harry's shared core), the silver instrument in DD's office stating 
LV & Harry are still 'in essence divided' (but not for long?); the 
scene in COS where as Tom Riddle gets stronger, Ginny gets weaker. 
All of these indicate to me that the meaning of 'neither can live 
while the other survives' is a shared *life*. 

Madeyes: 
> At this point the power that Voldemort knows not, could surface, 
> Harry could invade Voldemort's mind (since Voldemort himself 
cannot 
> enter Harry's) and give an overdose of not only that which 
Voldemort 
> can't stand, but that which he has never been able to understand, 
> love and affection for another human being. Here Harry could very 
> well gather up all of his love and grief, along with all the 
> affection he has for his friends, and overload Voldemort on them, 
> making him live through his eyes and memories, revealing all that 
he 
> has done from the eyes of the one he has affected the most, Harry.


Jen: I could be happy with an ending like this--sort of a "Portrait 
of Dorian Grey" moment. As you say later, LV can't live inside all 
of Harry's emotions so he would be toast. Would that leave Tom 
Riddle or some form of him? Not sure. I guess TR essentially died a 
long time ago.


>Madeyes: 
> This could be a faith worst then death for a person as empty and 
> lacking of real emotion as Voldemort, this could be the end of 
> Voldemort, a suitable end. Giving Harry the opportunity to 
vanquish 
> him (not kill him) and keep hold of his moral integrity...
> 
> I hope this hasn't been discussed, I am new to this groups and 
this 
> is my first post. I am eager to hear your comments.

Jen: Welcome to the group! Very impressive first post. Mine was 
about three sentences, I think :).

I believe LV has already been vanquished by Harry, and thus the 
first two parts of the Prophecy were fulfilled at Godric's Hollow. 
So one of them will be 'killed' this time, at least in the sense 
that JKR speaks of as "properly dead", meaning no more resurrections 
in any form.