[HPforGrownups]"other ways of destroying a man . . ."

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 125998

--- Steve <bboyminn at yahoo.com> wrote:

> The gist is that if Dumbledore tries to AK Voldemort, it's likely
> he will either fail, or Voldemort will again be reduced to vapor.


True.  And also likely (from Dumbledore's POV) that he will likely
hurt Harry.

I think that Dumbledore is operating under the assumption (since COS
at least) that the link between Harry and Voldemort could easily lead
to Harry being eventually taken over completely by Voldemort in some
kind of permanent possession.  He was concerned that this takeover
was somehow happening in COS (when he invades Harry's mind after Mrs.
Norris is found petrified to ascertain that Harry is innocent) and we
saw it again in OOTP when he checks his silver instruments ("but in
essence divided") after the news about Harry's Arthur dream/vision. 
Note he checks the instruments immediately before doing anything to
help Arthur: he has to be sure that this is Harry he's talking to,
not Voldemort in a Harry-suit.

The key issue which we sometimes pass over is that as Snape put it to
Harry in the first occlumency lesson: "the normal rules don't seem to
apply to you, Potter."  Dumbledore doesn't KNOW what is going on
inside Harry or Voldemort as a result of Voldemort's pre-GH fiasco
immortality experiments.  I think that we'll find out that both
Dumbledore and Snape have been working for years to recreate
Voldemort's experiments (and I believe that a younger Snape worked on
some of the original ones when he was a DE) to find out what
precisely happened at GH that fateful night and to find out just what
the connection between Harry and Voldemort really is.

Yes, it would be nice if Voldemort-ism could be defeated as easily as
a Dark Lord could be but nastiness, evil, bigotry etc. is part of
human nature.  There can be no final victory, only recurrent small
triumphs that must be won over and over again without an end in
sight.

Magda


		
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