Why Did Voldemort Live?

[Tamara]

No: HPFGUIDX 129066

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mightymaus75" <mpjdekker at h...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sophierom" <sophierom at y...> 
> wrote:
> > Actually, Rowling didn't say that we should be asking "Why did
> > Voldemort live?" Instead, she said that no one's ever asked her 
this
> > question: "Why didn't Voldemort die?" (Edinburgh Book Festival
> > transcript). This may seem like a nitpick on my part, but I think
> > it's significant that in her discussion of this topic, she keeps
> > talking about why Voldemort didn't die instead of talking about 
why
> > Voldemort lived. (See the transcript for her full disucssion;
> > here's a link:
> > http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/news_view.cfm?id=80)
> > 
> 
> I think you have made an important point there. In my opinion the 
> reason Voldemort did not die is that he is not truly alive. 
Voldemort 
> cannot feel love, Voldemort cannot feel the pain that goes with 
love, 
> Voldemort has lost everything that made him alive as a result of 
the 
> steps he took long ago to guard himself against death. This then is 
> why Dumbledore tells Harry at the end of PS/SS: "not being truly 
> alive, he cannot be killed." 
> 
> Dumbledore could have been referring to Voldemort's vapor state. 
But 
> then Voldemort's vapor state was a result of it being impossible to 
> kill Voldemort, not the cause. Dumbledore could have been referring 
> to Voldemort's state of cursed half-life caused by drinking Unicorn 
> blood. Unicorn blood however does not seem to keep you permanently 
> from dying. It certainly didn't prevent Quirrell from dying. So 
> perhaps Dumbledore was referring to the steps Voldemort had taken 
> long ago to guard himself against death. 
> 
> This would mean Voldemort already was not truly alive the night he 
> showed up in Godric's Hollow and was hit by the rebounded AK-curse. 
> Because he was not truly alive, the AK-curse could not kill him.    
> 
> -Maus
> 
> For more on Voldemort not being truly alive see the KITTENS & 
> RAINBOWS theory website: 
> http://home.hccnet.nl/p.s.dekker/HPtheory.html

This would give a good explination as to why DD didn't 'kill' 
Voldemort when he was battling with him at the Ministry in the end of 
book 6. Voldemort can't be killed, he can only be vanquished? And 
only Harry can do this. Though, can he die now that he has returned? 

Tamara