Will Harry *beat* Voldemort? (long)

[exodusts]

No: HPFGUIDX 148141

> grega126:
> Third, how did Lily/Harry beat Voldemort the first time?  Not by 
> standing up to him, but by kind of 'cheating'.  I don't mean to 
take 
> away anything from Lily's sacrifice, but to the best of our 
knowledge 
> we don't even know if she did it on purpose.  This seems to me to 
be 
> the way that Harry's going to win.  Either he's going to dive in 
> front of Ginny and then when Voldemort tries to kill her he's going 
> to get the curse rebouneded, but w/o his Horcruxes not going to 
> survive, or something along those lines.


Exodusts:
You might have just hit the nail on the head. Call it the Harry loses-
on-purpose theory. Assume Harry IS a Horcrux. Assume that he 
discovers this fact, in the course of destroying all the other 
Horcruxes. Assume Voldy arrives on the scene and makes Harry an offer 
he can't refuse: serve me forever or I kill Ginny. Harry refuses, 
saying: "I'd rather die, kill me now" KNOWING that this is a 
deliberate sacrifice on behalf of Ginny, because he knows, if it IS, 
what will happen next. And because it IS a deliberate sacrifice, 
after Voldemort AK's him (releasing the last Horcrux), Voldemort 
tries to AK Ginny, the curse rebounds, no Horcruxes are left, and 
Voldy is toast by his own hand. Harry engineers a sort of a self-
fulfilling victory through faith. Talk about killing two parts of 
the uber-villain's soul with one piece of circular logic...