[HPforGrownups] Re: Predictions about book 7

[Peggy Wilkins]

No: HPFGUIDX 152932

On 5/25/06, Najwa <empress.najwa at gmail.com> wrote:

> Now if Harry was a Horcrux, he would have to destroy all the other
> horcruxes and the walking talking new Voldie. I think this will lead
> to a scene when, after all the horcruxes were destroyed, Harry will
> finally face Voldemort and destroy him.  A few minutes of celebration
> and triumph will follow, until the Voldie horcrux stuck in the Scar
> will begin to retaliate and laugh in Harry's face and begin an
> internal battle. <snip>

Peggy W:
An interesting idea, but I see a problem with it: we haven't seen a
self-activating Horcrux.  It would seem that the Horcruxes just sit
there, and require an agent to actively do something to bring about
the return of the person they are protecting.  Would Voldemort have
lain dormant for over a decade if it were possible for him to
"reactivate" himself through Harry?  I don't think so;  he had to wait
for Quirrell to come by before he could do anything useful, and when
that attempt failed he had to wait for Wormtail to help him come back
several years later.  Even the diary which was not an ordinary Horcrux
required Ginny's assistance to start regenerating Tom.

I think a destroyed-except-one-Horcrux Voldemort would be even weaker
than the Vapormort that the series started out with; so the cycle
would begin again, and maybe in 50 years he'd be back...

We could postulate that the situation may be different once there is
only one Horcrux left, but personally I am more than a little
skeptical.

To continue with your scenario: another outcome of this line of
thought might be that after defeating the physical Voldemort Harry
would realize he is still carrying Voldemort inside him.  There would
be no confrontation or battle with this dormant bit, but Harry would
then have to realize that he will have to sacrifice himself in order
to assure the safety of the world.  Perhaps this makes sense of
"neither can live while the other survives".  If this is the case,
Dumbledore's statement in PS/SS that Harry will have the scar for his
entire life will indeed be true.

Let's go a little farther with this.  If Harry has this realization,
and is willing (actively decides) to sacrifice himself because he
truly feels the full meaning of it all, that feeling may force out
that last bit of Voldemort (similar to the MoM possession where
Harry's feeling of love was intolerable to Voldemort).  If that
happens, perhaps he then could live; and perhaps even without the
scar.

-- 
Peggy Wilkins
enlil65 at gmail.com