Voldemort and Death

[Phil Vlasak]

No: HPFGUIDX 103008

Wanda wrote:
>The discussion about who will kill Voldemort, Harry or Neville, and
>if that will necessarily entail Harry's death as well have got me
>wondering about Voldemort and Death.  I wonder, is it perhaps
>*impossible* for Voldemort to die?  I remember in PS, when Hagrid is
>describing the aftermath of the GH confrontation, he says that some
>thought that Voldemort was dead, but HE figured that LV didn't have
>enough human left in him to die.  I've always wondered why LV
>*didn't* die at Godric's Hollow. I think that Harry's survival and
>his survival were somehow linked - basically, they were both hit by
>an AK curse, and both survived when neither should have.  (I have my
>own theory, but I won't describe it here, because it involves time
>travel and I understand that subject has become rather prickly to
>some people).  Could "the power" that the Dark Lord knows not
>(according to the prophecy) be Death?  Perhaps Harry has the power
>to die, which Voldemort is incapable of, at least under present
>circumstances.  I can imagine the possibility that Harry's death
>might finally make it *possible* for Voldemort to die; he might even
>realize that he wants to die, like a vampire, instead of persisting
>forever in a kind of malignant immortality.  But I don't hold out
>too much hope of Voldemort "seeing the light" in any way, and expect
>he'll probably have to be shoved into the next world, rather than
>going willingly.
>
>Wanda



>Now Phil quickly looks up in GOF, CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
           THE DEATH EATERS
LV says...
But I was willing to
embrace mortal life again, before chasing immortality. I set my
sights lower ... I would settle for my old body back again, and
my old strength.


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