[HPforGrownups] Re: Voldie and the aging process (Was: Half-Blood Prince disappointing)

[Karen]

No: HPFGUIDX 146445


On Thursday, January 12, 2006, at 10:43 PM, Deb wrote:

>
> I agree that Harry must find some way to vanquish LV and destroy his
> capacity to do magic and evil .... I am just not convinced Harry *has
> to* kill him. One scenario might be ... Harry and friends destroy all
> of the Horcruxes and then find a way to pursuade a Dementor to
> administer *the Kiss* to LV. His last soul fragment is gone... along
> with his memory and - apparantly from hints given in canon - his
> ability to do magic. In this manner Harry does not have to kill -
> thereby avoiding the splitting of his own soul yet still reducing LV
> to Muggle!Mort.  Just how one could pursuade a Dementor to *Kiss* LV
> is beyond my capacity to imagine cuz it is such a disgusting image
> (IMO)... though I have also wondered what would  happen if a Dementor
> *Kissed* LV before all the Horcruxes were destroyed... would the
> Dementor only get that bit of soul left in LV's current body? Or would
> the power of the *Kiss* be so strong as to suck all of the soul bits
> from their hiding places and down the maw of the Dementor? 
>
>

I think this is quite brilliant and quite possibly does have something 
to do with victory over LV. The "Kiss" has been heavily featured. 
Interesting that you have something ready made to zero in on souls; 
when the denouement of the entire piece resides in hunting soul pieces 
in particular. One of our big sticking points with book 7 is howinell 
can Harry do it? After all, he's refused to tell MacGonnagall about the 
horcruxes so I'm assuming he isn't going to let any of the Order in on 
it. Harry does not have Dumbledorian capabilities for all his being the 
key to LV. Since souls appear to be the thing that make Dementors snack 
happy, he's got a built in soul vacuum if he can convince a dementor to 
come along for the ride. Which, tall order that it may seem, seems less 
tall than learning a bajillion magic skills to get rid of horcruxes. 
Now, getting the items, that's tricky too, but I have to agree here 
that somehow the dementors have got to come into play for this. I'm 
quite certain we don't know enough about them right now to figure out 
how, but it's really the only way I can see Harry destroying horcruxes 
to even get to the last bit of LV.

Had another thought, though I am not sure how it plays in. We know 
Hermione mentions that few wizards have logic, but we know Snape does 
since he set up the logic part of the protection for the SS/PS. Will 
Snape convince Harry of his allegiance through logic?

Just more thoughts to toss into the pot.

kchuplis