JKR Chat "The Crucial and Central Question"

[greatelderone]

No: HPFGUIDX 92391

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Deb" <DBoyken at a...> wrote:
 
> 1. Having heard the prophecy, Dumbledore knows that no-one but 
Harry 
> is going to be able to kill Voldemort, so that trying to kill V 
while 
> inside Harry isn't going to work.

The prophecy doesn't invalidate the fact that someone else might kill 
Voldemort. All it says is that Harry has the power to vanquish 
Voldemort and that one is going to die due to the other. Voldemort 
dying inside of Harry's body is within the bounds of the prophecy. 
Remember prophecies are very tricky things. Harry getting killed by 
Dumbledore you could say would be indirectly due to Voldemort. 

But would that kill Voldemort? I think killing Harry with Voldemort 
inside would probably result in Voldemort losing his mind which would 
technically mean that Voldemort would still be alive so the prophecy 
would still be in tact. Of course this is all very theoretical.