HarryMort (was many other things)

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "caspenzoe" <cruthw at e...> 
wrote:
<snip>
> 
> Sorry to nitpick, but one of us has missed something here (or JKR 
> has - and I think that's least likely). In her recent Edinburgh 
> appearance, JKR specifically stated that one of the questions fans 
> have not asked her, but should have, is "Why didn't DD kill LV in 
> the DoM." 
> 
> Why should fans have asked her this question if she's already 
truly 
> answered it via DD? Apparently, she at least, is under the 
> impression that any explanation was given by DD was incomplete or 
> inadequate. Although I remember DD stating that VM had possessed 
> Harry in the MOM in hopes that DD would sacrifice Harry in an 
> attempt to kill him, I don't recall that he actually directly 
> explained why he didn't attempt to kill VM either during his 
> possession of Harry, or otherwise, to Harry, at all. 
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Another lightbulb (bing!) moment stimulated by your post caspenzoe: 

I had always thought that LV possessing Harry at the end of OotP and 
then saying to DD 'kill me' was a kind of 'ner ner nee ner ner, 
can't get me' (cos I'm in your favourite person who you'll also 
kill) type thing. However, LV doesn't have a history of playing with 
DD or under-estimating him. It may be that LV is trying to tempt DD 
into some lapse either as a chess-like bluff (make this move and 
you'll beat me - only in fact I know you won't cos you haven't seen 
something that *I* have) or as temptation (Vader and Luke type 
moment a la Star Wars) to expressing his 'dark side' and therefore 
failing. However, it may be instead that LV recognises that he can 
ONLY be killed when he and Harry are reunited as a single entity and 
that DD knows this, but that as the strongest wizard he would surely 
survive and be freed of the suppressive link he presently has with 
HP so that DD's 'death blow' will kill Harry but not himself (LV). 
All this fits with the 'neither can live while the other survives' 
aspect of the prophecy. Further, it begs the question of what 
happened to baby Harry when he and Voldemeort were fused. Part of LV 
was sundered and became the spirit-like weakling that made its 
comeback by dark magic as LV in GoF (to an associated twinkle of 
triumph in DD's eye). HP now is the Voldie/Harry fusion. Where is 
baby HP? The truely good (Lily/James fusion) bit? Is it (like LV 
was) still floating disembodied to be reconstituted at a later date? 
Or is it still there in Harry fighting to be free and independent of 
LV's bit?

hmmmmmmmm. As usual comments and criticism welcome.