"Stand aside, girl" and the End

[kchuplis]

No: HPFGUIDX 145948

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "annemehr" <annemehr at y...> wrote:
>

> 
> See, I think it's the combination of all three things that explains
> it. 1)Wanting to get information from her if possible; thus the
> "negotiation," but 2)Afraid she may have found a weakness in his
> immortality or would in the near future, and 3)She had a nasty
> tendency of "defying him" and escaping, so: a quick AK and down to the
> business of killing Harry.
> 

You know, I was just thinking of the scene where LV comes to ask for a teaching 
position from DD: "The old argument," he said softly. "But nothing I have seen in the 
world has supported your famous pronouncements that love is more powerful than 
my kind of magic, Dumbledore." (HBP Scholastic pg. 444);

Well, it is clear from this statement that Tom and DD had often had scholarly 
arguments of some kind over this. Despite DD's claim and even LV in GoF that he 
forgot it or discounted it, it is clear that it must have come up either frequently or at 
least vehemently enough to spur that statement to DD. 

What if for a moment at GH, LV wavered in his belief that DD was wrong. Afterall, he 
respected DD's power if not DD himself ,as is clear in his behaviour toward him and 
the many references of DD being the only wizard he feared (or at least was wary of).  
So, though he may have not believed it, or may not have wanted to believe it, he may 
have sensed such fierce love in Lily for Harry that for a moment he was trying to avoid 
the very thing that happened, which was the protection her sacrifice offered Harry.

But, instead, he only fortified the protection by giving her the choice, just as he 
caused his own prophecy to come true in marking Harry. In some ways, it was just 
more of the inevitability of the prophecy coming true. He hesitates (thinking of the 
old arguement) but sensing growing conviction in Lily realizes he must act. Only it's 
too late. Once the choice was offered the "old magic" had begun. I can imagine a 
moment for LV that I relate to whenever I start to do something that in my head I 
know "that was a mistake" but everything is in motion and I can't stop it. It's then like 
watching yourself in slow motion heading in a direction that you don't have the power 
to stop but you KNOW you just made a huge mistake. I've had this happen more than 
once to me when I've burned myself on cookware and sometimes in working on the 
computer. A dreadful feeling, and something LV would never cop to once he is "back".

 It's a thought anyway.

kchuplis