LV Inmortality

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>jlnbtr 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.

Neri:
Welcome jlnbtr! I like the simplicity of your theory very much, and
this is why I'm going to complicate it a bit ;-). First, your theory
doesn't answer JKR's second question in the Edinburgh Book Festival –
Why didn't DD try to kill LV in the MoM battle? So let me suggest an
improvement: LV can now be killed because he took human blood into his
veins, but he can be killed only by the human of which his blood he
had used, namely Harry. So this explains nicely the gleam in DD's
eyes: he realized that LV had just fulfilled the prophecy by his own
actions. Again!

Hmm. I've always suspected it would be a newbie in his first post who
will finally give a satisfying explanation for the gleam in DD eyes ;-)

Another thing I like in your theory: in the end of SS/PS (Ch. 17)
Harry asks DD:

 "Yes, sir. Well, Voldemort's going to try other ways of coming back,
isn't he? I mean, he hasn't gone, has he?"

And DD answers:

 "No, Harry, he has not. He is still out there somewhere, perhaps
looking for another body to share 
 not being truly alive, he cannot
be killed. He left Quirrell to die; he shows just as little mercy to
his followers as his enemies. Nevertheless, Harry, while you may only
have delayed his return to power, it will merely take someone else who
is prepared to fight what seems a losing battle next time – and if he
is delayed again, and again, why, he may never return to power."

Personally I always assumed when reading this passage that LV cannot
be killed because he is vapor. But your theory suggests a different
explanation: LV could not be killed even BRFORE he became vapor,
because in one of his "experiments" he traded his humanity for
immortality, and this is why the rebound AK didn't kill him in
Godric's Hollow, thought it should have done it.

And this explains another thing that has bugged me: why does DD say
here that the only way to stop LV is to delay his return to power
again and again? This doesn't fit with the prophecy, which claims that
LV can be eliminated for good. But your theory makes it fit: in this
stage DD knows LV is immortal, so he can't see how he would ever be
killed, and delaying his return to power is the only strategy he can
think of. But once LV made himself human and mortal again, DD regained
his belief in the prophecy.

And how did DD know what experiment LV had conducted and what had he
traded for what? Well, maybe his alchemistry set told him, but I like
a different explanation better: Severus Snape, the young and naïve
Dark Arts expert, was LV's assistant in this experiment. Or, a more
horrible thought, what if Severus was LV's guinea pig, in a pilot
experiment that went very wrong? This explains why Snape hates LV so
much that he switched sides.

Yes, I like this theory better the more I think about it. It still
needs a lot of work, like explaining the connection with the sacrifice
protection and the mind link and the power that the dark lord knows
not (humanity?) but I think it's defiantly worth the effort. Do you
have more ideas, jlnbtr?

Neri