Will Harry Die? Or just "defeat" Voldemort?

[Lynda Cordova]

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Mouthpiece 49:
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.


Lynda:

I think that Harry is going to have to kill Voldemort to defeat him, if only because V is so committed to not dying.  For him it is the ultimate horror simply because of the emptiness of his soul.  That is the reason he has to die.  As for the idea that by killing Voldemort Harry will create a horcrux, I think that horcruxes have to be made intentionally, with that purpose in mind.  Also, not all killing is murder.  Some killings are done to protect either self or others from an act of extreme violence or evil, and the killing of Voldemort would certainly fit into the latter category, and since he is intent on killing Harry the former one as well.

Lynda