Small choice in rotten apples

[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 148413

dungrollin:

> So this is it:
> I reckon the bit of Voldy's soul that ended up in Harry, has been 
> knitting with Harry's soul in the kind of healing process that 
> Anne's theory would predict. Harry's soul has incorporated the Voldy 
> fragment. Harry doesn't have to *die* to get rid of the last 
> Horcrux, he has to *kill*.

houyhnhnm: 

If you are saying that the negative traits we've seen arise in Harry,
which he has had to battle and overcome (the seven deadlies) are the
result of the Voldemort soul fragment trying to unite with Harry's
soul and heal itself, I like it.

I don't see how that makes it necessary for Harry to either kill or be
killed, however.  On the contrary, I see Harry's victory over
Voldemort as an internal one.  By some supreme act of goodness on
Harry's part, the LV soul part will be purified and integrated with
Harry's own soul.  (At which time the scar will disappear.)

In other words, the only way to permanently defeat evil is for each
one of us to confront, own, forgive, and thereby overcome, the Dark
Lord within.

Yes, such an ending would please me very much.