Questions! Questions! Questions!

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No: HPFGUIDX 110426

Mochajava13 wrote:
<snip> And as to why Dumbledore didn't try to kill Voldemort, I don't think 
> he is able to.  Probably because of the prophecy.  Also why no one 
> can destroy Voldemort besides Harry.  Here's my theory: Voldemort 
> and Harry are connected.  That's pretty obvious.  They're two sides 
> of the same coin.  Like Yin and Yang, they are two parts to one 
> whole.  I think they're the live/death cycle.  (Far fetched but 
> here's my reason: their wands have a phoenix feather core.  A 
> phoenix is a symbol of death and rebirth.  Voldemort's wand is made 
> of yew, considered the tree of  death.  Notice the thestrals were 
> seen peeking through yew trees in OotP in Hagrid's class on 
> thestrals.  Harry's wand is made of holly, a symbol of life.)  
> Voldemort is death; he brings death where he goes and looks like the 
> grim reaper.  (Tall thin and wrapped in a cloak with pasty white 
> hands.)  Harry is life.  Just like life and death can't exist at the 
> same time, Harry and Voldemort can't exist at the same time.  
> 
> Also, another theory that I've had for a while about the connection 
> between Harry and Voldemort: I think that Harry has some part of 
> Voldemort in him from the rebounded curse.  In SS, Harry remembered 
> a lot of green light and a searing pain on his forehead.  Maybe the 
> pain was part of Voldemort getting seared into Harry's brain?  Now, 
> the part of Voldemort in Harry allows Harry to access Voldemort's 
> thoughts and feelings.  
> 
> So, the only way to completely destroy Voldemort is for Harry to 
> destroy the part of Voldemort that resides in him.  Anyone else 
> killing Voldemort wouldn't destroy him.  Make any sense?
> Sarah

Antosha:

I posted a similar (if less-well rounded-out) theory in post 110167. Astrofiammante made 
the excellent point in 110237 that we already knew this *before* Edinburgh--that JKR was 
letting us know that there's something more going on... We'll see.

Your post did spark something in my head, however. In GoF, Ch. 33 ("The Death Eaters"), 
p. (US ed.), LV says: "You know  my goal - to conquer death.  And now, I was tested, and it 
appeared that one or more of  my experiments had worked ... for I had not been killed, 
though the curse should have  done it. "

HE doesn't know how he was spared! HE DOESN'T know which spell/ritual/potion did the 
trick!

It is entirely possible that when he discovers that, he will, in fact, discover that he has lost 
part of himself to Harry--which leads to any number of theories that have been bandied 
about here over the last month or so. One of the most interesting is the idea that, in fact, 
LV was a composite creature made up of the spirit of Salazar Slytherin and Tom Riddle, 
whom he possessed when he (TMR) entered the Chamber of Secrets for the first time. That 
TMR is the link between Harry and LV (perhaps the third-party "other" of the prophecy?). 
That it is Tom's soul that has resided in Harry since Halloween, 1981, and that by 
releasing that part of LV (and himself) to death, Harry will defeat LV, and, in all likelihood, 
lose some of his own power. 

I still would bet that we're going to lose Harry behind the veil for at least a page or two 
when all of that happens....

Antosha