Voldermort's "death"

[imamommy at sbcglobal.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 119427


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Vivamus" <Vivamus at T...> wrote:
> > whimsyflower (wildflower) wrote:
> > <snip> I've spent some time musing on what it would take to 
> > kill LV, but then I looked at the prophecy again.  It does 
> > not actually say that Harry has the power to kill LV.  After 
> > Harry heard the prophecy in OOP, Harry assumed it meant he 
> > would have to kill LV, but the prophecy actually says Harry 
> > has the power to "vanquish" LV.  What if vanquishing does not 
> > mean killing, but somehow redeeming?  or emptying of evil?  I 
> > wonder if somehow Harry forgives LV or sees some good in him, 
> > and because Harry does so, LV is vanquished or looses his 
> > power or becomes impotent or is rendered no longer evil?
> > > 
> > > Alas, many more questions than answers, but I would love to 
hear 
> > > others' thoughts on these possibilities.
> > 
> > Hi!  Kim here:
> > I (and other posters) had some thoughts on this topic 
> > probably back in Sept. or Oct. this year (can't remember the 
> > post nos. or titles, sorry), but I still think it's an 
> > intriguing question.  By asking the question about 
> > vanquishing possibly not meaning killing, do you lean in the 
> > direction of a Lord Voldemort redemption?  If so, I'm with 
> > you on that.
> > 
> > I somehow doubt that Harry or anyone else will actually be 
> > able to "kill" Voldemort, because I don't think he's been 
> > killable for some time, not even after taking Harry's blood 
> > in GoF.  
> > >
> > As to how to render LV powerless and possibly even good, I'd 
> > had the idea that LV could somehow be lured into that 
> > mysterious locked room in the Dept. of Mysteries and 
> > "neutralized" (that is, if being in there didn't just 
> > vaporize him instead...)
> 
> I think a "redeemed" Tom Riddle walking around doing good would be 
a source
> of suffering to Neville Longbottom (and hundreds of others who have 
suffered
> similarly at the hands of LV or his followers) *almost* as terrible 
as the
> loss of his parents in the first place.
> 
> Vivamus, who is old-fashioned enough to believe that freedom implies
> responsibility, and some choices have eternal consequences.

imamommy,

Encouraged by moonmyst's response to one of my previous posts, I am 
again going to jump into the fray with my pet theory:  I think 
somehow Lord Voldemort will have his soul eaten my a dementor.  I 
think that somehow Harry will trick LV into possesing him, and a 
dementor will Kiss Harry, but somehow Harry will retain his soul and 
survive to tell the tale.

Here are links to my former posts, #119306 and #119223
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/119306
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/119223

imamommy
who is going to keep bringing this idea up until it gets read a bit 
more widely, and I receive more replies because I'm really interested 
in getting feedback on it