Is Voldie alive?

[jjjjjuliep]

No: HPFGUIDX 139744

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Mil" <milcg at y...> wrote:
> 
> As I was starting to re- read HBPs first Chapter "The Other 
> Minister"... this caught my eye:
> 
> [Fudge just told the Prime Minister, Lord Voldemort is back, and 
the 
> Prime Minister asked if that meant LV was alive]
> 
> "Yes, alive," said Fudge. "That is--I don't know--is a man alive if 
> he can't be killed? I
> don't really understand it, and Dumbledore won't explain properly--
> but anyway, he's
> certainly got a body and is walking and talking and killing, so I 
> suppose, for the purposes
> of our discussion, yes, he's alive." -- HBP, Ch. 1
> 
> Is this JKR's way, of telling us that LV isn't really alive?... 

In a way, yes--but when I reread HBP, I took this to be a 
foreshadowing of the Horcruxes (although we also had some hints as to 
this back in GOF [Voldemort's speech to the Death Eaters in the 
graveyard] and OOtF [when Voldemort comments on Dumbledore's refusal 
to kill him], as well as the interview when JKR told us the important 
question she hadn't been asked was "Why didn't DD try to kill VM at 
the Ministry?").  I do not think it means anything more than that.  
What you see in this paragraph is Fudge's ignorance.

jujube
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