A fate worse than death ALIAS finale vs Book 7

[Najwa]

No: HPFGUIDX 152874

> Randy <estesrandy@> wrote:
> > I immediately thought of Dumbledore's statement that "there are 
> > worse things than death".  I must confess that trapping Voldemort 
> > for all eternity in an undead state with no horcruxes and no 
> > helpers to find him would prevent Harry from having to actually 
> > kill Voldemort.  I think this may be a possible ending for Book 
> > Seven. A dead Voldemort forces Harry to be considered a murderer, 
> > but an eternally trapped Voldy is much more effective.  Harry 
> > will not have become a trained assassin as his legacy from 
> > Hogwarts.

> Steven1965aaa:
> However, with regard to theory re: ending --- Neither can live 
> while the other survives.



Najwa: 
I do like that theory, but Steven has a point about what was said in
the prophecy. I do remember Dumbledore being very upset with Harry for
continuing to be obsessed with the prophecy, since it was Voldemort
who chose for it to be so. I wonder, what is the difference between
living and surviving? According to wordweb, to survive is to "Continue
to live; endure or last" and to live is to "Have life, be alive" or
"Pursue a positive and satisfying existence" among other things. As
hard as I try, I can't find a way around it, so I wonder. Plus, can we
really count Voldie as being alive? His soul is all ripped up and
stored into different containers and he has some generic body he's
marching around in. And since I do think that Harry is a Horcrux, I
tend to wonder if we can count him as alive as well, though they both
tend to be surviving. The only way I can make sense of it is if Voldie
continues to survive, then Harry can't have a life, and/or can't have
his own soul by itself, since its sharing part of LV's. And Voldie
can't really go about his business with his biggest fear running
around and training to destroy him. Maybe that gleam of triumph in
Dumbledore's eyes was because part of Harry's soul is now running
through LV's veins.

Najwa, who always thinks she's onto something and then realizes that
she's just confusing herself more.