Must Harry Die? - sort of....

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 121559


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at y...> wrote:
> 
> bboyminn:

> "...either must die at the hand of the other..."
> 
> True that's simple and straight forward enough, BUT...
> 
> "...for neither can live while the other survives..."
> 
> Is not so simple. The first and most obvious problem is that they 
are both surviving and both living, but the Prophecy says that can't 
happen.
> 
> It seems to imply that if one of doesn't die by some independant
> means, then both of them are doomed to death; each, meaning both, 
of them are doomed to death as long as his counterpart continues to
> survive. Extended further that opens the possibility for both of 
them to die.

Tonks here:

Both LV and Harry survive, but are not fully alive. They are bound 
together. They are battling each other.  Sort of like the state of 
mankind.  Evil is always lurking around the corner.  Death is 
lurking, somewhere, sometime.  Harry can not live fully with death/ 
evil existing.  Death/evil can not totally win (thereby live) while 
Harry continues to exist.  Death/evil can not die without Harry 
dying with LV since they are joined in a way that no one else seems 
to be. Harry is ying/LV in yang, so to speak.  So they both die or 
they both continue to survive, but not a full life.  There is a 
cursed life for them both.

But somehow in whatever was done to Harry by the "ancient magic" and 
Lily's sacrifice, Harry will, I think, somehow survive death. He 
will die, LV will die with him and Harry will come back, like I have 
said before. Even if this is not what happens, LV's end has 
something to do with what happened at GH that night or even before 
that night. 

Perhaps the ancient magic saved Harry and united LV to Harry in such 
a way that only Harry can kill LV because only Harry can take LV 
with him when he dies.  (In my mind I think of the crucifixion of 
Christ and the moment when he takes on the sins (evil/death) of the 
world and then transforms it after his death, so that death can no 
longer win over mankind.) If the books are somehow symbolic of this, 
it was Lily that made the sacrifice, and Harry that is living out 
the rest of that event. This may be far fetched. We will see.

Tonks_op