Resolving (?) the Riddle

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 125017


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "naamagatus" <naama_gat at h...> 
wrote:
> 
> Since reading OoP, I've come to (slowly) realize that the main
> questions in HP revolve, not Harry Potter, but Voldemort. (snip)
> 
> Then came the interview, where JKR directed us to think of the two
> questions:
> 1) Why didn't Voldemort die in GH?
> 2) Why didn't DD try to kill him in the MoM? 

Snipped a Brilliant post! 

Tonks now:
Steve and I were discussing DD and LV a few weeks ago. I think that 
we concluded that DD doesn't try to kill LV because LV takes 
possession of any person that AK's him.   LV survives because he 
possesses others.  Steve said that at GH, since LV was the one to 
use the curse and it rebounded to kill him that he had no other body 
to possess and therefore became *mist*.  I think your theory can 
also fit with this concept.  

I have a theory that the reason that Jesus tells us not to return 
evil for evil is that the evil a person gives out causes more evil 
to exist in the world. One could say that it makes LV stronger.  I 
think that when a person makes the choice to do an act of evil, such 
as an unforgivable curse, they are giving LV more power.  This 
negative power or evil is increased both in the person and in the 
world on a comic scale.  When we turn from evil LV becomes a little 
weaker.  This I believe is true in the RW as well.  (On some level 
the WW, MW, and RW are one.)

Even the RW wizards and witches have a saying that what you give out 
comes back to you 3 fold.  It is called the *Rule of Three*. If you 
give evil out it comes back 3 times as much.  Now it is interesting 
that 2 things as diverse as Christianity and real witchcraft say the 
same thing on this topic.  And of course we can see it is true in 
practice in the RW.  If someone wrongs you and you take revenge, 
things often go from bad to worse. Whereas, if you respond in a 
loving way it can neutralize some of the evil.  I think that this 
neutralizing effect can have cosmic significance.  Will we ever 
really know how much all of the acts of love, and especially 
sacrificial love that occurred during the Second World War actually 
kept Hitler from winning?  I wonder what a scientist would say about 
this concept.  Is there any quantum physics, string theory or 
whatever that would have any bearing on the concept of what you give 
out comes back stronger? Or types of energy neutralizing each other? 
I know that some say that the energy of Love is a higher frequency 
energy and that evil is a weaker lower frequency.  That is what 
philosophy says. What would science say?

I love your idea of the 2 natures of LV. As Renee said in her post, 
this makes LV the anti-Christ.  I think many things are coming 
together here.  Again thank you for such a through provoking post.

Tonks_op