Prophecy fullfilment in PS/SS?

Jen Reese stevejjen at earthlink.net
Wed May 19 15:16:51 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 98835

Carol:
> My point, or rather, my question is this: We know that Harry is the
> only one who can destroy Voldemort, but do we know that Voldemort 
is
> the only person or thing that can kill Harry? I don't see anything 
in
> the infamously ambiguous Prophecy to that effect. "Either must die 
at
> the hand of the other and neither can live while the other 
survives"
> only means, IMO, that if Voldemort is to be destroyed, Harry must
> destroy him (in which case Harry will "live" rather than merely
> surviving as he does now), but if Voldemort were to destroy Harry, 
the
> only one who can vanquish him, he would become immortal and
> invincible. It doesn't mean that Harry can't die (theoretically) in
> some other way before the confrontation takes place. Or at least I
> don't see anything to that effect in the Prophecy.

Jen: When LV was immortal, it was true that Harry was the only one 
with the 'power to vanquish him', because the killing curse wouldn't 
affect him. Now I wonder, though--can someone else kill him in his 
mortal state? Because I agree with Carol that Harry can die by other 
means, so if "either must die at the hand of the other" leaves 
wiggle room for Harry to die on other ways, I wouldn't think LV 
would be exempt now, either.

Dumbledore seems to believe Harry can die in other ways, hence the 
intervention at the MOM. When Dumbledore didn't seek to kill LV at 
the MOM himself, it was presumably because he believes only Harry 
has the power to do that. But what if he's wrong, what if LV 
reclaiming his mortal body changes things?






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