Lord V: A Fate worse than death?

fireflyseason2 lydiafrench at gmail.com
Tue Apr 3 05:41:44 UTC 2007


No: HPFGUIDX 167033

So here are a couple of thought's, stay with me, now...
1. Murder is a soul-rending act. Harry is no murderer. He's done much
throughout the books to prevent murders, to keep his friends from
becoming murderers; one of his first feelings when DD told him THE
prophecy (near the end of OOP) was of not wanting his life to end in
either being murdered nor murdering. Harry sees seeking out someone
with the intention of killing them as murder, even LordV.
2. DD reminds LordV that "as you well know" there are things worse
than death, or something to that effect. Refering, I believe, to the
time LordV spent bodiless, after the death of his body and before he
was reanimated with the intricate and powerful spell at the end of
GOF which required blood from Harry himself.
3. During the duel between DD and LordV (OOP)when LordV possessed
him, Harry was filled with love and, we assume, happiness at the
thought of DD ending his life because then he could the pass though
the veil and get to be with Sirius again.
4. There is very little hope that Harry will be able to find/destroy
all of the Horcruxes before LordV gets to him. It took DD years to
find just 2 and it's cost him a hand and Harry just isn't that good a
wizard.
(Do you see where I'm going with this?)

If I put all that together in my tiny little mind I get a showdown
where Harry can ensure that LordV can never return to power by
destroying the body of LordV but leaving one horcrux so that Lord V
remains a powerless bodiless vapor. Harry would then pass through the
veil of his own free will to ensure that LordV cannot be reanimated,
as a vital ingredient "blood of THE enemy" will be gone forever.

And then we would all cry at his selfless sacrifice but trust that he
was happy in the bosom of his family and no one could write another
Harry Potter book because no one can return from the behind the Veil.
And prophecy, shmophecy, free will wins out in the end.

What do you think?
firefly








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