Power the Dark Lord Knows Not.

[greatelderone]

No: HPFGUIDX 128146


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "phoenixgod2000" <jmrazo at h...> 
wrote:
> phoenixgod2000: If you continue the logic chain then perhaps an AK 
> didn't rebound onto him. 

Edinburgh Book Festival
JKR: Not, "Why did Harry live?" but, "Why didn't
Voldemort die?" The killing curse rebounded, so he should have
died. Why didn't he? At the end of Goblet of Fire he says that
one or more of the steps that he took enabled him to survive. You 
should be wondering what he did to make sure that he did not
die—I 
will put it that way. I don't think that it is guessable. It may
be—someone could guess it—but you should be asking yourself
that question, particularly now that you know about the prophesy. 
I'd better stop there or I will really incriminate myself.
http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/news_view.cfm?id=80

I think the words of the writer herself namely JK Rowling are pretty 
final on the issue. The killing curse rebounded on him and he 
survived not because of Harry, but because of his own dark 
experiments.

> What if he can unravel the immortality spells that hold 
Voldemort   
> together.

GEO: I reckon that would be the gleam of triumph seen on 
Dumbledore's face in the end of GoF and also probably tie into the 
second question of why Dumbledore didn't bother with killing 
Voldemort in the Ministry of Magic.