Will Harry *beat* Voldemort? (long)

[hpfan_mom]

No: HPFGUIDX 148168

> > grega126:
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...
>
hpfan_mom:

But would Voldemort forget the power of a love sacrifice and allow 
Harry to die protecting Ginny?  LV knows how Harry survived the 
first time: "His mother died in the attempt to save him - and 
unwittingly provided him with a protection I admit I had not 
foreseen . . . . I could not touch the boy." . . . "This is old 
magic, I should have remembered it, I was foolish to overlook it."  
GOF, pp 652-653, US edition.

I just don't think LV will overlook it in Book 7.  Also, Lily's 
sacrifice was "unwitting" and we don't know if that matters.

Of course, my opinion could be colored by the fact that I Just Don't 
Want Harry to Die at the End.