Voldemort and Death in the HP Universe

[greatelderone]

No: HPFGUIDX 112992

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cunning_spirit" 
<cunning_spirit at y...> wrote:
>In OotP, when Harry is suffering from Voldemort's attempt to 
possess him, 
> he actually begs Dumbledore to kill him, so that at least he would 
see Sirius again. This 
> sounds like Harry certainly believes that death isn't the final 
chapter. 

GEO: Yes but that doesn't mean that Voldemort also agrees with this 
idea.

> Why then is Voldemort so afraid of death? Unlike us, he is from a 
society that is 
> comfortable dealing with phenomena such as ghosts, beasts you can 
only see if you've 
> directly perceived death, and veiled gates into the beyond -- why 
is he so squeamish as to 
> consider death the ultimate affront?

GEO: Because he doesn't know what happens when you die and also 
because despite everything you can't be resurrected with magic if 
you die so it's still a mysterious subject.