Why can't Harry? WAS Re: Why Can't Harry and LV live while the other survives?

[eileen_nicholson]

No: HPFGUIDX 142286

Valky wrote:
>snip< 
> The one thing I have not resolved to the point, I think, is why 
Harry
> cannot live while Voldemort survives.
> 
> Here are some of the angles that sort of work for me, but they don't
> simplify enough to ease my mind about it:
> 
> 1. Voldemort survives as long as Horcrux Harry lives, hence Harry
> cannot live because he remains the marked man forever hunted by 
Voldemort.<

Eileen:
I hope you don't mind me butting in here...

I am beginning to imagine that 'either must die at the hand of the 
other for neither can live while the other survives' simply means 
that by the time the prophecy comes into effect it is war to the 
knife between Harry and Voldemort, and neither can 'live and let 
live' while the other survives, tying in with Dumbledore's words 
towards the end of the 'Horcruxes' chapter in HBP. Not a bangy 
solution, so I am still hoping it doesn't turn out that way.

The only other possibilities I have come up with so far are this one, 

...that the two of them only have one soul between them and its a 
question of who gets to keep it - this is so disgustingly ewwww that 
I don't know why I posted it, but working out how such a situation 
might have arisen could be a challenge for an insomniac on 
hallowe'en ;)

...and the supposition that during the turbulent events at Godric's 
Hollow, which would in this case have to involve a switch, Harry 
wasn't the only one who ended up with something extra, Voldemort got 
a part of Harry too, that he needs to get back in order to live. And 
this would have to be Harry's soul. And it would have to be the whole 
soul because Harry at 18 months old wouldn't be capable of committing 
murder to split it.   

I'm not very good at theorising, I don't know whether its worthwhile 
for anyone to aim their canon at this one!

Valky again: 
> 2. The Horcrux is capable of possessing Harry the moment his blood
> protection ceases, hence he was doomed from the start to lose his 
life
> and his body to Voldie at 17, unless he can destroy Voldemort before
> then (or during which is probably more likely).
> 

Eileen: 
If no. 2 suggests a final showdown on or before Harry's birthday on 
31st July, then the problem as I see it is that the prophecy is 
fulfilled towards the end of 1997; we know this, I think, because it 
is towards the end of row 97 in the DoM, and Harry's birthday is a 
bit too early to fulfill the criteria 

Eileen