[HPforGrownups] Re: Survival of AK

[kim reynolds]

No: HPFGUIDX 113787

Hello.  Kim here.  Interesting discussions generate more questions (again, I hope I'm not repeating what's been asked and discussed before):
 
Wouldn't the old magic that Harry possesses, transferred to him by Lily when she died, be the same magic in the room in the Dept. of Mysteries that Dumbledore tells Harry about in OoP in his office after the battle at the MoM?  DD tells Harry that it contains the most powerful magic of all (love?) and so wouldn't that magic be able to trump all other magic, including the Avada Kedavra curse ("love conquers all")?  During the battle, when Lord Voldemort possesses Harry in an attempt to get DD to kill him (also seems to me that LV has a kind of unconscious suicide wish here), Harry sends LV packing by recalling his (Harry's) love for Sirius.  One might read into this that Harry needs to "invoke" the ancient magic to protect himself as opposed to being automatically protected by it all the time.  Does LV know about the room?  Here's a speculation: Maybe the way for Harry to conquer LV once and for all is to enter the room (provided he figures out how to open the door...) and get LV to
 follow him into it.  Voldemort might be overwhelmed by the power of love and vaporize completely (bye bye forever, Dark Lord) or else be overwhelmed by the power of love and come back out purring like a sweet harmless old pussycat... (for my part I wager things go some other cleverer way of JKR's devising)
 
Other questions puzzling me (face it, tons of things in the books puzzle me):
 
When someone kills you with AK, your body would still be lying there afterwards, right?  So at GH when James and Lily died, did someone come around afterwards and bury their bodies, which would mean Harry, et al. would have been able to visit his parents' graves someplace? Also, when Sirius went through the veil and apparently died, what happened to his body?  Which might suggest that he's not exactly dead...
 
Any comments are greatly appreciated.
 
Kim