Harry using AK curse?? (was: Snape as the Other)

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No: HPFGUIDX 136696

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "allies426" 
<AllieS426 at a...> wrote:
> 
> I definitely agree that Harry will pave the way for Voldemort's 
> death/destruction, however, I can't *imagine* Harry actually 
committing 
> murder.  (Even if Voldemort is a homicidal genocidal 
sociopath, it's 
> still murder unless a court convicts him, right?)  Does anyone 
think 
> that Harry will be able to use an Avada Kedavra?  I don't!!  So 
my 
> question (one of many...) is how exactly to read "either must die 
at 
> the hand of the other."
> 
> I know it's going to be Voldemort who dies.  It can't be Harry, 
that 
> would be heinous beyond comprehension.  What does this 
"hand of the 
> other" business mean?  I've heard talk about Wormtail's new 
hand, but 
> that makes Wormtail the Other and that doesn't fit with the rest 
of the 
> prophecy.  I also don't think "at the hand of" means "next to" or 
"by 
> the side of."  Maybe it's figuarative?  Harry destroys the 
Horcruxes 
> and then somebody else (my bet = Snape) actually performs 
the AK on 
> Voldemort?  And the death is still by Harry's hand because he 
destroyed 
> the Horcruxes?  Anyone, anyone??  I know the answers are in 
the books 
> SOMEWHERE!!
> 
> Allie

Sue now:

Good question. Have we actually been told that it will be 
necessary for someone actually to finish off Voldemort when the 
last horcrux is gone, or will the now soul-less Dark Lord simply 
shrivel up and die? Or turn into a vegetable, like the victim of the 
Dementor's kiss? ;-) I'm thinking of all those Eastern European 
tales - um, Koschei the Deathless, who hid his heart outside his 
body to protect himself and then someone found and destroyed 
it and that was the end of him (I think that's how it went). Anyway, 
could Harry destroy him just by finding and wiping out all the 
horcruxes? Surely he's carrying at least one of those around, or 
we couldn't have a last,dramatic confrontation... In which case, 
maybe someone will indeed help Harry over the last hurdle, 
maybe toss him the horcrux as he lies writhing in Crucio agony 
or some such thing ?