LV Inmortality

[mhbobbin]

No: HPFGUIDX 115394


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jlnbtr" <jlnbtr at y...> wrote:
> 
> First of all, hi everyone. I'm a new member of this group and may 
I 
> say this is exactly what I've been looking for as a huge HP fan.
> 
>  I have a theory regarding DD's sparks when Harry tells him that 
LV 
> took some of his blood. In SS when Hagrid first meets Harry and 
tells 
> him about LV he says he doesn't think LV dead for he is not enough 
> human. What if by taking Harry's blood he becomes "more human"? 
This 
> would mean that as a human he could be killed for good.
> 
> jlnbtr

mhbobbin:

Do you mean his "triumphant gleam"?  (Or tell me about "sparks" so 
to be sure I'm on the same page.) I think that  you are on to 
something.  Hagrid says early in SS that " ...he [LV] didn't have 
enough human left in him to die" which supports that theory. On the 
other hand, Hagrid is best at being a source of repeating general 
views of the WW rather than real knowledge.

Now, why didn't DD try to kill LV in his duel with him in the MoM--
(not obviously when Harry was possessed by LV) if he thought that LV 
might now be slightly mortal? Does DD really put that much faith in 
a prophecy that indicates Harry must be the Vanquisher? Hasn't DD 
worked to that point to convince Harry (and us) that predicting the 
future is at best an inexact skill?

mhbobbin