Voldemort: Between Life and Death? (Long)

[saraquel_omphale]

No: HPFGUIDX 110173

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> wrote:

> > If Dumbledore were aware that Voldemort is not properly alive, he 
> > would know that he could not kill him.  This would explain why he 
> > did not try at the end of Book 5. What if Voldemort, having 
passed 
> > into a state somewhere between life and death, can only be 
> > vanquished by the person who has the ability to enter the realm 
> > between life and death and meet and destroy him?  What if the 
only 
> > person who can do this is our boy?

Thanks Inkinling for your superb post.  I liked this thought that LV 
is somehow suspended between life and death and that Harry must go 
there to meet him.  Perhaps that would mean, that in that state harry 
is both alone with LV, but has some sort of connection with both 
sides - therefore with parents and Sirius on one side and DD,ootP on 
the other.  I have always wondered why Sirius had to die and feel 
that the reason is crucial to the plot, or JKR would never have done 
it.  Does Harry somehow get help to go to this purgatorial place from 
both sides? Do his parents and Sirius, aid him to get there? 

If we take on board the assumption that LV is somehow between life 
and death, the fact that LV is  currently residing firmly on earth, 
implies that it would be possible for Harry to go to this place and 
yet still be 'alive' in this world.  I also don't think that JKR has 
planned Harry's death - I don't think it's her style and I don't 
think she could bring herself to write it!! (yes I admit, that's just 
my opinion, sorry JKR, I know I don't really know you at all!) The 
fact that she will not comit herself to saying whether Harry survives 
at the end or not, could well imply, that his state at the end of the 
book is somehow qualitatively different from ordinary life. (Or it 
could be just her winding us up.) Examples of being betwixt life and 
death/immortality yet still on eath abound in the religious context.  
The Buddhist Bodisatva, Christ etc.  However, I can't see JKR making 
Harry into some almost god-like figure (small g deliberately, I have 
no wish to offend here) she is much too down to earth, and Harry, 
deliberately made ordinary. 

I'm not sure I have furthered the arguments anywhere, but these are 
just my early morning musings.

Saraquel.