[HPforGrownups] Harry's dead (short lifeline)

[rachel]

No: HPFGUIDX 123702


 

 

Caesian wrote


What if Harry, the Boy Who Lived, didn't.  This is weird, but bear with 
me.  There has been some speculation as to what happened when the curse 
'rebounded', or whatever it did.  We wonder what Harry and Voldemort 
might share as a result.  A common technique in logic is to get the 
listener to agree to the premise without actually considering it.  "How 
did Harry survive?" is asked again and again, and so we wonder.  But 
the question assumes that he did survive.  Maybe this is not quite 
true.  I know that death is permanent in the WW, and so technically 
Harry can't have died.  But what if he didn't survive on his own steam. 
  What if Harry and LV now share a common mortality.  In other words, 
Harry actually would have been killed, but because his life became tied 
to Voldemort's by the 'rebound' (or whatever), when Voldemort was able 
to resist death, Harry resisted death as well.

In that scenario, when Voldemort dies, so does Harry.  Or perhaps DD's 
glint of triumph was not related to Voldemort's defeat, but to an 
increase in Harry's likelihood of survival...



 

This makes some sense, and has more evidence in canon.  OOTP p 415 - 416,
when Harry is in Dumbledore study following his vision of Arthur Weasley -
Dumbledore uses a strange instrument from which a snake appears, and then
divides into a two headed snake

'"Naturally, naturally," murmured Dumbledore apparently to himself, still
observing the stream o smoke without the slightest sign of surprise. "But in
essence divided."'

Does this mean that Harry and LV share the same essence?

 

Rachel