Vanquishing Voldemort

[celestina707]

No: HPFGUIDX 106630


> Celestina:
> > There was a thread recently about the prophecy at the end of 
> > OofP, in which "one has to die at the HAND of the other", which
> > can be interpreted as Harry needing to vanquish Voldemort with 
> > his hands, and not his wand, as we know that priori incantatem 
> > will be a problem again if they duel once more. I thought it was
> > a brilliant idea, btw.

"dcgmck" <dolis5657 at y...> wrote:
> You emphasize "Hand".  Could that mean that Peter Pettigrew might 
> repay his debt to Harry by using the silver hand Voldemort gave him 
> to destroy the former's master?  That would make for an interesting 
> twist while taking the brother wands completely out of the equation...


No, that's not quite the take on the "hand" theory. I have cut and 
pasted the original post so you can decide for yourself what the 
prophecy could mean:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/104510

From:  "Justine" <sweetface531 at y...> 
Date:  Mon Jul 5, 2004  10:39 pm 
Subject:  Harry LIVES! (was: prophecy wording)

 
Carole:
"either must die at the HAND of the other"

Justine responds:
Wow! This sounds silly, but I've never read it with that emphasis
before, and it seems to make all the difference in the world!

So, the prophecy (which was worded carefully by Trelawney and JKR)
states that "either must die at the HAND (emphasis Carole's) of the
other." This brings me back to Dumbledore's look of triumph in
GoF. It is only after Harry tells him that Voldemort touched his,
Harry's, face, that Dumbledore's face takes on this expression.
Voldemort was, consequently, happy that touching Harry's face does
not harm him. What he fails to realize, however, is that Harry is
left unharmed as well. Harry does feel pain, but his head is
already aching from the scar, and the scar gives Harry pain whenever
Voldemort experiences emotion, the intensity of the pain varying
with the intensity of the emotion. Imagine the strength of
Voldemort's happiness when realizing (incorrectly) that Harry's
touch will not kill him! Harry is not hurt, *certainly* not killed,
from the touch of Voldemort's hand. Dumbledore is triumphant
because *Harry did not die at Voldemort's HAND* and therefore
Voldemort must be vulnerable to the touch of Harry's HAND, and not
his FACE or any other part of his body. We've already seen Quirrell
die because of contact with Harry's hands--that isn't just movie
contamination, is it? Perhaps Dumbledore now knows that, according
to the prophecy, Harry cannot be killed by Voldemort. Then,
logically, Harry is the one with the fatal touch!

Perhaps I'm only trying to comfort myself with this "evidence" for
Harry's survival...

Justine