Killing Harry for Fun and Profit

[greatelderone]

No: HPFGUIDX 127997


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Peggy" <pegruppel at y...> wrote:
> 
> Now Peg:
> 
> Well, my take on Voldemort's "protected" status is way back in the 
> messages:  
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/121546

GEO: I agree with you that Voldemort has probably externalized a 
part of himself in order to gain his limited immortality however I 
would disagree that he has sacrificed his entire soul, but rather 
that he got rid of his heart or the part of his being that could 
love, which would  fall in line with Rowling's comments about 
Voldemort being what he is because he has never loved or cared for 
anyone, Dumbledore's comments that the power that Voldemort knows 
not is the love within Harry, which we know he has underestimated in 
their very first encounter and which in OOTP allowed Harry to 
exorcise Riddle from his mind and also finally would explain 
Dumbledore's gleam of triumph after Harry told him that Riddle had 
used his blood laced with magical protection and probably love to 
rise again.

> A quick summary--Lord Thingy is a magical construct, not 
> really "alive" in the usual sense.  The prophecy has been 
fulfilled 
> in part because of the rebounding AK.  

GEO: How so? The prophecy said that Voldemort or Harry would die at 
the hand of the other and Voldemort didn't fall at Harry's hand, but 
rather through a combination of his own magic and the sacrificial 
magic that was invoked after he murdered Lily.

> what if Barty 
> Jr. *had* managed to articulate the curse?  Is it the power of the 
> Prophecy (working through the structure of the story) that 
prevented 
> him?

GEO: Perhaps more like the laws of the story or the hand of the 
writer that prevented him from accomplishing it.