[HPforGrownups] Re: The editor was sobbing

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 167117

> funkeginger wrote:
> >    What are you guys saying that Harry is just going to take
> Voldemort's powers and not kill him. Then how will the story end? DD
> said in the Half Blood Prince that Harry did not have to kill
> Voldemort, I know but he also said that if he did not, a lot of chaos
> would happen. And anyway even when Voldemort did not have his powers
> he was still danger.
> >    Even if Harry takes his power he still needs to kill him he still
> too evil to live . Have you ever heard the expession evil never
> sleeps? It means that evil will allow start trouble no mater how weak
> it is, you should take that in to Mind when you look at Voldemort
> without his power. He will still bring fear and chaos around the
> Wizarding world so he needs to die .

Yes, I will think that we need to see Voldemort dead. But, I also do not
think that we need Harry to do the final offing. I think it's entirely
plausable that Harry removes all power from Voldemort, and then because he's
in that weakened form, something that would ordinarily not hurt the Dark
Lord will end up being fatal. Someone mentioned LV being reduced to an "ugly
Muggle". This holds merit- I could see LV, now ugly Muggle, doing something
arrogant, like crossing Muggle road, forgetting for a split second that he
can't just use his magic to save him, and thus get smashed to death like any
other Muggle would had they been hit by that same speeding car. I won't even
pretend to know the final set up, but I can see something like this
happening, thus redeaming Rowling of the responsibility of making Harry a
murderer, and at the same time, killing LV in such a way that it's his own
damn fault he's dead. Thus, prophesy is fullfilled, and everyone's happy.
(Except that this whole fight will have exacted a terrible cost in the lives
that it took fighting it.)

Shelley