Prophecy and Choice

[annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 97524

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Franzi schuerch <amlesis at y...>
wrote:
> I think it is important that the word vanquish rather
> than kill is used in the prophecy.
<snip>
> So I suspect there
> must be another way to get rid of Voldie.
<snip>
> Because when it comes to magical
> knowledge and skills surely DD is the match for LV but
> according to the prophecy only Harry (or Neville) have
> the power to defeat him. So what does Harry have that
> DD hasn't? The most obvious would be Harry's scar and
> the connection between him and LV that comes from it.
<snip>
> Furthermore, [DD] talks about a
> force [...] that is so powerful that the door to
> it at the MM is always looked (interesting that it is
> not death that needs to be looked away), and that
> Harry is full of this great force. It is not explicit
> said but I would think the power DD talk about is
> love.
<snip>
> Harry may have enough
> power (love) to make up for all the evil in LV.
> [...] Harry may have the
> opportunity to use it against LV because of his scar
> and the connection that comes with it. I think in the
> final battle between LV and Harry it will not come
> down to "wand magic" and knowledge but to willpower
> and emotions. At the end of GoF we saw that Harry is a
> serious opponent for Valdie in this department. From
> Voldie's point of view it was probably the biggest
> mistake to choose Harry over Neville.
> 
> Cheers Franzi

Annemehr:

I like how you've put these ideas together:
~"Vanquish" doesn't necessarily mean "kill."
~The power Harry has and LV knows not seems to be "love," according to
Dumbledore.
~The scar connection is the conduit for the power Harry has.

One objection to the idea of Harry defeating Voldemort by love has
been that Harry doesn't necessarily show any greater capacity for it
than everybody else: what makes him so special?

Well, partly, at least, it's the scar connection that makes Harry
special.  It can be the combination of the connection with a great
capacity for love that defeats LV.  Others' great capacities for love
(Lily's for instance, or Hagrid's) weren't enough to do it, because
they lacked the connection.

Of course, you may still get some argument about whether Harry really
does have that much capacity for loving, but not from me!  ;-)

Annemehr
who can't reconcile her lingering doubts about whether it *is* love
behind the locked door with Dumbledore's seeming assumption that it's
obvious even to *Harry* what's back there, but there you go...