Questions! Questions! Questions!

[Matt]

No: HPFGUIDX 110392

--- Kate Harding <phoenix at r...> wrote (in response to djrfdh):
>>
>> djrfdh:
>> I suspect he couldn't kill Voltemort without also
>> killing Harry, for I rather think they are one in 
>> the same person...in fact, I think, in the end, we 
>> will find that this is the story of a very demented 
>> child [who] has found solice in becoming numerous 
>> personalities in order to preserve what little sanity 
>> he has left! 
> 
> Kate Harding:
> While I can't agree with the second half of this, I do 
> think you're right about Voldemort and Harry being in 
> some sense the same person. Personally I think that in 
> some way there is only enough life between them for one 
> person. I don't know how the metaphysics would work, but 
> this would explain why DD couldn't kill Voldemort - if 
> one of them died the other would still only be half alive. 
> It also makes sense to me in terms of the prophecy....
> 
> We've seen that some of Voldemort passed into Harry 
> (parseltongue, memories), so it seems plausible that some 
> of Harry passed into Voldemort.  Perhaps this exchange was 
> lifeforce, for want of a better word.

I don't have much to add in terms of the theory itself, but wanted to
point out that this type of explanation would conceivably answer both
of JKR's "unasked" questions -- that is, the life-bond, or whatever it
is, between Harry and Voldemort may be both the reason that Voldemort
survived his own rebounded curse and the reason that Dumbledore would
not (or could not) kill Voldemort.  

-- Matt