Horcruxes and why Harry can't die - yet!

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No: HPFGUIDX 134262

This is my first post for a very long time and forgive me if this 
has been discussed. I am some days behind with reading posts and I 
can't possibly catch up with everything.

I found myself yet again reflecting on those wretched ambiguous 
final words of the prophecy, 'neither can live while the other 
survives.' Voldemort has created horcruxes to prevent his own death, 
death being his greatest fear (see Muggletnet/LC interview with 
JKR). We know that is why he didn't die when the curse intended to 
kill baby Harry rebounded on him. But were those words of the 
prophecy the reason why the curse rebounded and was that a further 
reason also why Harry didn't die, as well as the protection afforded 
by Lily's sacrifice? After all most mothers would do the same to 
protect their children and there is no evidence that such sacrifices 
have prevented other children from dying. Could the interpretation 
of those last words be something like this.

If the one of these two, ie the Dark Lord and the one who will be 
his equal, succeeds in killing the other, he will in fact be signing 
his own death sentence, for *neither* can live while the other 
survives. They have both after all been surviving together through 
six books and 15 years so far so it can't simply mean that they 
can't both be alive at the same time. But it might mean while there 
is a survivor of a final climactic battle. Since Voldemort cannot be 
killed by Harry while his horcroxes exist, once Harry has found and 
destroyed however many remain and left Voldemort mortal again, then 
if he kills him both will in fact die. As Voldemort hasn't heard the 
final part of the prophecy he doesn't realise that killing Harry 
will not be possible unless he also is mortal and that it can only 
be done at the cost of his own life. 

This is I admit a bit fiendish and convoluted and I am not 100% sure 
if it logically stands up. That prophecy drives me mad because the 
meaning seems to twist for me every time I read it. But that 
explanation mightjust possibly be twisted enough for JKR. It also 
makes Harry doomed for I am sure that he will succeed in Book 7 in 
destroying the horcruxes and in destroying Voldemort. But I fear the 
cost will be his own life too. I also think DD may realise this also 
but still think the sacrifice, even of Harry worth it since as he 
told us in the very first book, 'Death is the last great adventure 
the well ordered mind.'

Any comments

Meglet