Will Harry Die? Or just "defeat" Voldemort?

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Mouthpiece49

I can't for the life of me figure out how Harry could "defeat"
Voldemort without killing him.  And by the way I don't think that
killing someone in pitched equal battle is the kind of "murder" that
will split your soul.  I think the soul splitting murder has to  be
with extreme cruelty.  Else every soldier would have a split soul.

Logically, "defeat" would be that state of being 180 degrees from
Voldemort's present state, pure evil, i.e., pure good.  So Harry
would have to do something to Voldemort that makes him "good"?  What
about Harry vanquishes him in battle and spares his life?  Then
Voldemort is beholden to Harry and bound by allegiance to protect
Harry (or whatever happens when one wizard saves another wizard's
life) so he can't be bad any more or else he would, what, die or
something?  What do people think of this?

This is why I think he will vanquish him by taking him alive through
the veil.  It must be weird to be in the afterlife and not be
actually dead, although you appear dead to those left behind in th
Potterverse.


Tinktonks responds:

Dumbledore says time and again that there are worse things than
death. And I agree. The Longbottoms for instance. I would rather be
AK'd than tortured into insanity unable to recognise the people whom
you once loved?

Personally I think love will be the key. The ministry has the power
of love in one of the rooms, more powerful, more wonderful and more
terrible than any other. I think this will be LV's downfall. He will
be subject to all the love that his victims families felt for their
murdered loved ones. He will be destroyed inside by the pain that
love has brought. When this hits him Harry will have the choice,
fulfil the prophecy or walk away. He will walk away, Voldemort's
parting shot is an AK before he dies of the pain from so much love
and hurt, Wormtail takes the fall.