Killing Harry for Fun and Profit

[Steve]

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I was recently browsing the Leaky Lounge Forums, and a gentleman
called 'The Curious Mr Quint' started the thread on ways of killing
Harry. He proposed a scenario in which Voldemort Polyjuiced as Sirius
to lure Harry into a trap. While 'The Curious Mr Quint' was soliciting
other scenarios in which Voldemort could kill Harry, that brought up a
much greater question in my mind, and that question is not 'How can it
be done?', but 'Is it even possible given what we know?'.

Here are the key points -
 
Next, in our attempts to kill Harry, here are a few things we should
consider.

Love Shield-

'Love Shield' refer to the protection of love that Lily transferred to
Harry when she sacrificed herself to save baby-Harry from Voldemort.

Though few of us do, we should ask ourselves if Lily's love protection
is Universal, or is it unique to Voldemort. Regardless of who was
doing the cursing, Lily dying for Harry should have given him a
universal protection, in my opinion. In other words, if Voldemort had
killed Lily thus creating the Love Shield, and then Peter Petigrew
stepped forward to land the killing blow on Harry, Harry would have
still been protected and the rebounding curse would have bounced back
against Peter. Again, that's my speculation.

The alternate is, that because Voldemort caused Lily's death, the Love
Shield is then unique to Voldmort. Because Voldemort caused the harm,
Harry is protected from futher harm caused by Voldemort. That seems a
little convoluted, but I hope it makes sense.

I think most people are just assuming that Harry is uniquely and
specifically protected from Voldemort, but do you still hold that
opinion after giving the possibilities a long hard analysis?
Personally, while the Shield may be strongest against Voldemort, I
can't see any reason why it isn't universal. I can' t see how or why
it wouldn't give Harry protection against any and all attackers bend
on causing death. I limited the protection to death, because we have
already seen Draco curse Harry effectively, but these where schoolboy
harrassment curses.

The Prophecy Shield-

Next we have the Prophecy, it implies that only Harry can defeat
(assumed kill) Voldemort, but if we accept that, then shouldn't we
equally accept that only Voldemort can kill Harry? And, if that is
true, doesn't that give them each an additional level of protection?
If only Voldemort can defeat (assume kill) Harry, doesn't that imply
by extension that Lucius and Bellatrix can not defeat/kill Harrry?
And, extending that farther, doesn't that imply a somewhat limited
invulnerability for both Harry and Voldemort?

Voldemort's Shield-

We don't have details, but we know Voldemort has spent his whole adult
life pursuing and experimenting with protections against death.
Further, we know that one of more of these has, to some degree, worked. 


Now combine this new concept of Prophecy Shield with the protections
that both Harry and Voldemort originally each uniquely had, and you
have two extremely hard to kill people. 

Let me expand this by asking a question, if you were a general wizard
or a Death Eater, give that Harry couldn't be killed by the strongest
Dark Lord in a century, and given that the attempt by said wizard
rebound and generally destroyed said wizard, would you want to be the
next person to attempt to kill Harry? 

Just on the original vanquishing of Voldemort by baby Harry alone, I
can't imagine that any one is too eager to put Harry's vulnerability
to the test. I certainly wouldn't want to be the first. 

Now in terms of the End Game, the conclusion of the story, things have
gotten a little sticky. It's not simply a matter of an effective way
to lure one or the other into a trap. It's going to take some very
special and unique circumstances to cause the downfall of either Harry
or Voldemort. It's going to take some very special, unique, and
powerful magic to accomplish the job. Although, perhaps the key is
that to 'vanquish' either, the solution is to NOT use magic; for one
to kill the other by non-magical means; think Colt 45, the Arch/Veil
of Death, or even Sword of Gryffindor.

This is what make the conclusion of the series so spectacular, JKR, in
a sense, has written herself into a corner, but placing both key
characters in a position where they can't actually be killed. Yet, in
the end, we know that one or the other must be killed, or if not
killed then so sufficiently vanquished as to prevent them from ever
being a threat again.

That leaves us with one overriding heart-pounding sleepless-night
inducing question - HOW?

Just a thought.

Steve/bboyminn