How will Harry win in the end? (long)

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No: HPFGUIDX 91229

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lizvega2" <lizvega2 at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> LizVega here:
> 
> I agree with the theory that Harry will not use AK to kill LV, 
> partly because, like you said, I don't think he'll be able to 
> harness the joy in killing that is required to perform the spell. 
> But, I also don't think that Harry and LV will use wands during 
> their battle. We saw in GOF what happens when their wands meet- if 
> wands are required, perhaps one of them will use someone else's 
> wand. True, wizards don't receive the best results when using 
> another's wand, but as powerful as LV and Harry (Will become)are, 
> it's an option. 
> 
> I also agree that the key to defeating LV for good is the emotion 
> that Harry has in huge quantities that DD referred to, some say 
it's 
> love, but I don't think so. It seems like a cop-out, and horribly 
> obvious, not jo's style at all. I've always wondered whether its' 
> the 'essence' of magic. The very thing that connects Harry to the 
> wizarding world, and all its' inhabitants.
> 
I agree that it doesn't need to be wands.  I wonder after the 
dementor scene in OOP whether Harry even needs a wand (Lumos!).  
The love thing is definitely sappy and I don't usually go for that 
either.  I wonder, however, what will defeat LV who is pure, self-
indulgent evil.  I think that DD's speech at the end of OOP was 
giving us clues to that.  

If the story continues as it has been, I'm thinking that in Book 6 LV 
will attempt to get Harry to destroy himself by destroying the things 
Harry holds dear.  If he could see what losing Sirius did to Harry, 
he will try to do more of the same.

Kristen