The Darkness Within

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No: HPFGUIDX 119022


> Carol responds:
> I have a problem here--not with azrionas's argument, which I agree
> with, but with the idea that Voldy is now mortal. He himself has said
> that he will settle, temporarily, for having his body back and not yet
> seek immortality, but if he's mortal, why can only Harry destroy him?
> 
> We've already discussed why DD didn't try to kill LV at the MoM, but
> if LV is mortal, *couldn't* DD have killed him, Prophecy or no Prophecy?
> 
> Either A) the Prophecy is wrong (or being wrongly interpreted by DD,
> Harry, and most readers) or B) LV is wrong about his own mortality:
> he's immortal with the exception of an Achilles heel named Harry Potter.
> 
> Can anyone think of a third possibility (C)) that will make sense of
> this apparent contradiction? How can Voldy be mortal and still be
> killable only by Harry?
> 

And Kneasy wrote in #118980 

> Back to the old "Dumbledore's gleam". 
> IIRC no-one ever has explained that satisfactorily.


Neri:

I have suggested a possible solution to these problems in the frame
VASSAL theory:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/116371

While this theory is currently a bit stranded, the reason has nothing
to do with my suggested solution. Briefly, I suggest that LV agreed to
become mortal again only if he'd also gain Harry's protection. With
the blood trick he indeed managed to get this protection for himself,
but by sharing blood with Harry, he is now vulnerable to Harry,
exactly in the same way that Harry is vulnerable to him. So LV is now
mortal, but protected against everybody except Harry. This explains
DD's gleam of triumph: he realized that LV again made the prophecy
come true by his own actions. This also explains why DD didn't try to
kill LV in the MoM – he believes that LV is protected against anybody
except Harry.

But there's an additional factor that even DD perhaps doesn't realize:
the Shylock Effect (details in the above link).

Neri