[HPforGrownups] MY theory as to 'How It All Ends' ...I dispute the "Must Die" theory

[Katherine Coble]

No: HPFGUIDX 159547


On Oct 12, 2006, at 3:29 PM, royallydoyley wrote:

> Hello I'm new here so bear with me if you've read/heard this
> theory a thousand times already.
>
> I reckon that in the last book... In order for Harry to defeat
> Voldemart, he himself must die. The two are magically linked
> and therefore thats the only way he'll acomplish it...
>
>
> What'd ya think???
>
> royallydoyley


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Welcome, new person.

Yes, we've heard this theory about sixty hundred thousand times  
already.  And no offense to you personally, but I'm tired of it.   
Because I, like many people, don't want Harry to die.   He's had a  
really difficult entirety of life as it is.   Killing him is the  
ultimate bring-down to what are supposed to be morality tales for  
young people.

I personally don't think Harry has to die in order to defeat  
Voldemort.   As I said in a recent post, I believe that when  
Voldemort used Harry's blood for his (V's) resurrection, he removed  
any link between the two SOULS  that would cause Harry to die in  
order to defeat Voldemort.     Hence Dumbledore's "look of triumph"  
at the end of book 4.

Any remaining linkage--parseltongue, scars, emotional links--are  
something like genetic residue.   We've already seen JKR make  
repeated reference to Harry's resemblances to his father and his  
mother.   However, having such visible links to James and Lily did  
not mean that Harry had to die when they did.   I look at Harry's  
current "resemblences" to Voldemort in much the same way.

The prophecy does say that "either must die at the hands of the  
other".   I think this is significant because I think it means that  
MAGIC will not kill Voldemort.   That he will have to be killed at  
Harry's HANDS.   And that Voldemort can't use Magic to kill Harry.    
Think of all of the times he's tried to kill Harry with MAGIC and  
failed.   Voldemort has a history of underestimating humanity,  
placing all his reliance in magic.  Therefore, I think it is through  
humanity that Harry will kill Tom Riddle, and the magic elements such  
as Horcruxes have no bearing on Harry's having to die. 
  

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