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

[theotokos]

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Angie wrote:
It could also be a reference to the fact that some people are willing to die to save someone else.  So, for them it would be worse to live if, by dying, they could save someone they love.  (Oh, no, the "L" word again.) After all, wasn't that the case with Lily?  Voldemort either forgot or didn't place much stock in sacrificial love and look where it led him. 
[snip]To Dumbledore, living without being able to experience love is worse than dying.
[snip]IMO, this statement is more than DD merely giving his opinion of death.  I believe it is related to something that will ultimately lead to VM's downfall.  So far, we know VM will go to any means to 
avoid death and that he cannot reside in a body where love lives.  I don't know what other weaknesses he has.  But, I believe that since 
he is now in human form again, he can now be killed.  I think Harry's blood has contributed to that and that was why DD was pleased to find out VM could touch Harry in GOF. But perhaps I digress . . . .


me:  Maybe I should have snipped more, but I think you are on to something.  I tend to forget the whole "love saves us all" stuff because that sappy stereotypical "love is the answer" business tends to bother me in R.L. and other fiction, but JKR has dealt well with it here and I must not forget--as she always reminds us--this is a series for children.  That said, I hope she deals with it more imaginatively than LV not being able to reside in a body with love in it.  I think she will.  I think that escapade in the MoM was a clue to what will eventually be the downfall of LV, as you yourself inferred, but only a clue.  Surely the downfall will be more complicated or difficult than that.  If it is too easy I will be very disappointed.  But back to Love--Love is something core to DD (as we have seen in conversation with Harry as well as through his relationships) and so is probably a conversation he and Tom have had in the past when DD was still in a position of mentor to Tom.  Think
 Anakin and OB1 from Star Wars--except I got the impression from Tom's diary that DD didn't exactly trust Tom, but maybe he used to.
 
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