[HPforGrownups] Voldemort as a Ghost? (Was: Voldemort's ideology?)

[Peggy Wilkins]

No: HPFGUIDX 151547

On 4/25/06, coldsliversofglass <Lady_AshkaCat_Rain at hotmail.com> wrote:

> coldsliversofglass:
> Any other theories on what might happen to Voldemort when he dies?  I'm
> hoping it won't be the same ending as in the Chamber when the diary version
> was defeated (Ray of light, or even convergence of shadows seems a bit
> cliche).

Peggy W: (adding the "W" because I see there are two Peggy's here)
Funny you would mention this, because this is actually part of my Pet
Theory on the Demise of Voldemort, which comes from thinking about
what happened with the AK that night at Godric's Hollow.

Voldemort fires an Avada Kedavra at young Harry, but it cannot kill
Harry because of Lily's sacrifice and rebounds on Voldemort instead;
however, it can't kill Voldemort either, because of his Horcruxes.

This is what makes Harry and Voldemort equals as stated in the
prophecy: Voldemort can't kill Harry because of Lily's protection, and
Harry can't kill Voldemort because of his Horcruxes.  This forms a
kind of symmetry that is unique between them (AK will kill anyone
else, but they can't use it to kill each other--this makes them exact
equals, no one else can equal them in this regard).  The mark of this
symmetry ("mark him as his equal") is Harry's scar.

What happened to the failed Avada Kedavra, did it simply dissipate?  I
don't think so.  I think that since the Avada Kedavra was unable to
complete its job, it (or rather, the energy of it) has been hanging
around, held between Harry and Voldemort and making an active
connection between them.  Both Harry and Voldemort can travel along
this connection: this is what enables Harry to feel Voldemort's
emotions and be Voldemort in his dreams, and it is what enables
Voldemort to plant ideas in Harry and see out of his eyes.  It gives
Harry his special knowledge and his connection to the Heir of
Slytherin that enables him to open the Chamber of Secrets.

The connection is active and holds energy.  Its emblem is Harry's
lightning bolt scar.  This is very interesting because a lightning
bolt is a sign of power (as in, High Voltage in the context of
electricity).  So my proposition is this: when Voldemort's final
Horcrux is destroyed, Harry and Voldemort will cease being equals
because Voldemort will again be mortal.  This will break the symmetry
between them, and the energy that has been held between them all these
years from the failed Avada Kedavra will then be able to complete its
job: it will rebound on Voldemort, from Harry.  If Harry is physically
near Voldemort when this happens (either must die at the hand of the
other), it will probably kill Voldemort.

Somehow I have always envisioned this, visually I mean, as appearing
quite similar to what happened to the reformed Tom Riddle in the
chamber: dissolving into light.  And then Voldemort will simply no
longer be.

--
Peggy Wilkins
enlil65 at gmail.com