[HPforGrownups] Re: Will there be an ESE!character in Book 7?

[Karen]

No: HPFGUIDX 147503


On Thursday, February 2, 2006, at 05:42 PM, justcarol67 wrote:

> Surely he's not expecting LV to beg for mercy or
> repentance? Or maybe it's not a half-truth at all but an out-and-out
> lie to cover up his knowledge of the Horcruxes? I can't imagine DD
> *wanting* to take someone's life, not even Riddle/Voldemort's. What,
> then, does he mean?
>
> Ideas, anyone?
>
>
kchuplis:

Personally, I rather wonder if DD doesn't want LV to die without  
actually realizing what he and LV have argued about all these years - 
that there are worse things than outright death - that there IS a  
power beyond death - love. Which seems a little vindictive, since I 
really do believe DD is all for ridding the world of this complete 
evil, but I think that sentiment is there.  I also think there is the 
other affirmation regarding death or redemption when (and it seems to 
confirm death) when Harry asks (about the prophecy) "so does that mean 
that...that one of us has got to kill the other... in the end?" and DD 
answers simply "Yes." I know everyone likes to weave all kinds of 
things around this as well but I mean, really, it doesn't get too much 
clearer that that is what it comes down to.