Did Harry "die" [was: Re: In the beginning]

[suehpfan]

No: HPFGUIDX 92001

Snip of Sue and Max posts ('cause I'm gonna say it all again) 
> And finally, Susan again:
> See?  This is where I'm losing it.  At first, I thought this was 
> posited as **Harry** essentially died and was replaced with a 
> portion of VOLDEMORT'S essence, while a vaporized form of Voldy 
also 
> whipped off to try to rebuild.  But now as I read this, it sounds 
as 
> if you're saying HARRY survived and his life force is inside Voldy.
> 
> I'm not saying I don't like the idea, and I'm not trying to 
> nitpick.  [Really!]  I'm just trying to understand what it is 
you're 
> suggesting might have happened.  
> 
> Siriusly Snapey Susan

Okay, again, with an attempt at clarity.  I am basically 
defining "life force" as something non-specific to a person.  Not a 
soul, in other words.  Here's my thinking: AK kills the person, ie. 
removes the life force.  The soul travels on to where ever souls go 
and the body is left behind.  The soul in this instance would contain 
the personality, memories etc. of the person AKed.  The life force is 
destroyed and the person dead.

With this in mind then, AK hits the charmed baby Harry, destroying 
his life force, while at the same instant rebounding (I will add here 
that for this to have happened, the AK curse now carries with it 
Lilly's charm) on Voldemort, destroying his body, and sending his 
life force back to Harry.  Harry's soul had no time to leave and 
before the body died, Voldemort's life force enters Harry's body, 
saves the baby and carries with it some very interesting baggage. 
Harry is saved, Voldemort is vaper and the "old magic" Lily used 
worked beautifully, but had some odd side effects.  Soooooo, 
Harry "died" without dying.

Here's the short form:
1.Lilly charms Harry

2.AK hits Harry, destroys life force, picks up charm and rebounds on V
Charmed AK destroys V's body and sends life force back to Harry 
(along with baggage)

3. Harry receives life force and some odd skills

4. What is left of Voldemort is gone (he did some interesting charm 
work too), Harry (new and improved)lives with nothing but a scar.

Confused?  Me too, I said I needed an aspirin.

Sue, who is believing this theory less and less the more she writes 
it.