[HPforGrownups] What DD wanted for LV? WAS:Re: Will there be an ESE!character in Book 7?

[Donna]

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Carol wrote:
"Still, I think we can take the statement ("Merely taking your life
would not satisfy me, I admit") as true even though it's not the real
reason (or the primary reason among many) why he doesn't attempt to
kill Voldemort then or at any other time. That being the case, what
can he mean by it? What *would* satisfy Dumbledore (if he were alive
to see it)? Would merely having *Harry* take LV's life be somehow 
more satisfactory? 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 someones life, not even Riddle/Voldemort's. What,
then, does he mean? Ideas, anyone?"

Donna replys:

I don't think LV will die and my reasons, in no particular order, are:

1.  LV is afraid of death.

2.  DD says there are things worse than death.

3.  The prophecy says the Dark Lord will be vanquished, not killed.

4.  The quote by Carol.

5.  Harry doesn't have it in him to kill.

But, I do believe LV will wish he were dead.

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