Can Dumbledore Kill Voldemort? ( Re: Questions! Questions! Questions!)

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No: HPFGUIDX 110394

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Alina" <alina at d...> wrote:
> On the general subject of The Important Question (that is: Why 
didn't DD
> kill Voldemort, or try to?)
> 
> I always thought that the answer has to do with Dumbledore's words 
that
> there are things worse than death. I don't think killing Voldemort 
is what
> he has in mind, but rather those very things.
> 
> As for the theories that Harry has to be the one to do it and 
whatnot... I
> don't think DD is all that thrilled at the thought of Harry 
turning into a
> murderer, regardless that it's Voldemort he gets to kill. I myself 
am sure
> there's more than a literal meaning to the prophecy and Harry 
won't have to
> commit murder in the end. I guess I just can't see Harry killing as
> resolution to the books.
> 
> Alina.

Hi! As to why DD didn't kill LV, I agree that the prophecy must be 
taken literally, but I also think this puts the onus of destroying 
Voldemort squarely on Harry's shoulders. 

We all saw what happened when Voldemort tried to interfere with 
Trelawney's prophecy: in attempting to kill Harry, LV marked him as 
an equal, thus fulfilling the prophecy unknowingly. I think it's not 
a good idea to mess with prophecies and DD knows it. If DD had tried 
to kill LV at the MOM, it may have wreaked havoc with the course of 
the prophecy. Because LV had gone to lengths to protect his 
mortality, who knows what chain of events that action by DD might 
have set off? Trelawney's words have pitted Harry and LV against 
each other, and I think they will be held by those words.

One thing that puzzles me is that if neither can live while the 
other survives, how long a period is referred to? Obviously, LV was 
alive for over a year after Harry was born; again, since the end of 
GoF, a year has passed with both HP and LV co-existing in the 
magical community. How does the presence of one character interfere 
with the survival of the other? I wonder if JKR will spell that out 
in books six or seven.

Orly, who loves the enigma