Shaken Dumbledore? /Snape speech to Bella again

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>Alla:
>I am completely with Quick_silver here - during the battle in MOM
>for
>all we know Dumbledore may have sustained one of the biggest shock
>moments in his life, if he indeed loves Harry as deeply as he 
claims.

>For all we know, he felt completely helpless and powerless and he
>had
>no clue how to save Harry for all we know. Dumbledore does not tell
>Harry in his final speech in OOP that " I saved you", he says "your
>heart saved you".

>Is it such a big stretch to assume that such huge stress indeed
>slowed down his reactions? I think it is a reasonable assumption to
>make


Orna:
I liked this thought very much. It adds to a feature brought up in 
HBP, that of the power of emotional shock. We see Tonks loosing a 
lot of her power, of her magic abilities, and her Patronus, "just" 
because of an emotional shock. 
DD suggests to Harry, that Merope might have lost her magical 
skills, or at least the desire to be a witch (not to mention her 
will to live), because of the shock of discovering Riddle sr. left 
her.

I think it might foreshadow something which might aid to Voldemort's 
defeat. Perhaps something in the final encounter with Harry might 
shake/shock him in a way disabling him to use his powerful magic. 
Basically Voldemort is immune to emotional shocks – having trained 
himself to be detached and devoid of human feelings. But it is after-
all unthinkable that a human will be portrayed in a complete human-
devoid way until his very death. The whole point of DD's private 
lessons to Harry showed how human Voldemort was – in a way, and how 
he became less and less human. Perhaps, as the horcrux-note says – 
he will for a moment become somehow mortal and therefore human 
enough to sustain some shock. 

Just a thought,

Orna