Where will the "great battle" be (was: Some thoughts and questions)

[MercuryBlue]

No: HPFGUIDX 161945

Carol:
> the only way I can think of for Harry to kill a de-Horcruxed 
Voldemort
> without AKing him is to send him through the Veil.

MercuryBlue:
If the Horcruxes aren't there anymore, what's keeping Harry from 
decapitating Voldemort with a spell or the Sword of Gryffindor? Or 
strangling him with magic or a length of rope? Or putting a bullet 
or a Reducto through his chest? Or--heck, pick your poison (ooh, 
poison, that works too), there's certainly enough ways to die. Blunt 
force trauma probably won't cut it, given how Hagrid reacted when 
told that the Potters supposedly died in a car crash (that and how 
it's been years since anyone's died in a Quidditch match, when 
taking a ten-inch iron ball to the head is not a terribly uncommon 
occurrence), but there's still umpteen billion ways to kill someone, 
and I can't see why Voldemort would have put in the effort to 
protect himself against as many of them as he could think of. Why 
would he bother with a spell against burning to death and a spell 
against drowning and et cetera and so forth, when the existence of 
his Horcrux(es) meant he couldn't die?

MercuryBlue