LV Inmortality

[Tammy]

No: HPFGUIDX 115778



> mhbobbin wrote:
> <snip> 
> > 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?
> 
> 
> Carol:
> For one thing, he has powers that he's "too noble to use," as
> McGonagall informs us at the very beginning of the series. That would
> include the Unforgiveable Curses. (And, no, it wouldn't be noble to
> avoid using an AK so Harry could use the same spell later. There must
> be another, less evil way, to destroy Voldemort that only Harry can
use.)
> 

Tammy: 
I think that Dumbledore knows that Harry is the only person who can
kill LV. My pet theory revolves around Dumbledore knowing what LV did
to make himself immortal, thus he knows that no one can kill him
(perhaps this is information that Snape supplied to Dumbledore).
Voldemort is fulfilling the prophesy, first by picking Harry and
"marking him" as an equal. Then by insisting that it's HARRY who has
to supply the blood to return him to his body, LV makes Harry the only
person who can kill him. That explains the gleam in Dumbledore's eye
when Harry tells him in GoF that LV used Harry's blood. Dumbledore
didn't try to kill LV in the MoM battle because he knows that Harry is
the only one who CAN kill LV. (of course my theory is much longer and
drawn out with examples and such, but that's the basics. I'm sure I'm
not the only buying into this theory of the prophesy/why DD didn't
kill LV)

-Tammy