LV's New Body/Was: Why Didn't DD or Snape kill Voldemort?

[gelite67]

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> 
> Pippin wrote:
> I think it might have to do with Dumbledore's famous 'gleam' in 
GoF. Evidently Voldemort overlooked something important when he used
> Harry's blood to reconstruct his body. A new body might not have
> whatever weakness Dumbledore perceived.
> 
Angie again (exhausting her last post of the day)

Oh, surely DD was not wrong! LOL. I always thought the gleam in the 
eye was DD's recognition that LV could be killed again, since he had 
regained his body, and that, as you said, his act of taking Harry's 
blood would have unintended consequences -- more than what we've 
seen.  

LV himself said he would "settle" for his "old body" and described 
his recovered powers as "his old strength."  GOF, U.S. softcover at 
656.  To me, this means that whatever weakness his old body would 
have had, his new body would have.  I don't remember anything that 
would support that LV's "new-old" body is somehow stronger than or 
more resistant to whatever DD believes it to be subject to.  

The idea that the blood/scar connection will contribute to LV's 
demise goes along with DD's speech about despots creating their own 
enemies that will be their undoing.  LV could have used any wizard's 
blood to regenerate.  But had just HAD to have Harry's and I think 
that will ultimately contribute to his downfall. Wonder if Wormtail 
will stick out his tongue and say, "Told ya we shoulda used another 
wizard's blood!"  

I hope we see Harry turning the tables on LV and somehow using the 
connection forged by the scar and the blood (double whammy, anyone?). 
Since Harry is apparently incapable of performing Dark Magic on his 
own, I've always pictured Harry "torturing" LV with feelings of love, 
and then feeding off of LV's rage from having to endure such 
feelings, and then using that rage to perform the AK on LV -- that 
way, it would be LV's inability to feel love that really kills him 
and not Harry's desire to kill.