revelations from the Edinburgh Festival

[antoshachekhonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 110167

Queen Astrofiammant:

<big snip> My current problem with this question is that it seems too easily 
> answered from what we know - Dumbledore can't kill Voldemort because 
> Harry has to kill Voldemort. Obviously there is some level of meaning 
> I haven't worked out.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> 
> "queen_astrofiammante"

Antosha:
How about the fact that Dumbledore does not wish to kill Harry? And, perhaps, at this 
point, the two are so inextricably linked that neither one of them can die without taking 
the other with him? (The links we know about for certain include the scar from the failed 
AK and Harry's blood in LV's veins, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were more to it than 
that.)

I keep thinking (Joseph Campbell fan that I am) that the way that Harry will bring LV down 
is to sacrifice himself willingly in order to save those he loves, and that in some way their 
love and his sacrifice will bring him through the other side of death. That we will see 
what's on the other side of that veil--maybe even get a quick glimpse of Lily, James, Sirius 
(and possibly, by that point, Remus, Peter and many others)--and then Harry will be 
summoned/pushed/pulled back through. 

Perhaps?

Antosha, who is not hoping we don't get a Harry-arisen scene reminiscent of the Aslan-
reborn scene in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe