Lord Voldemort's Defeat

[matt_le_wilson2002]

No: HPFGUIDX 167911

> Cassy:
>
> Giving Harry such a choice would be quite in LV's
> carachter, methinks, but I really don't see how it
> would bring LV's end. OK, Harry decides to sacrifies
> himself, LV kills him and what? Suddenly gets
> destroyed himself too with no apparant reason? Or the
> AK bounces off Harry and kills LV? Well, maybe LV
> kills Harry and then attempts to destroy
> Hermione/Ron/Ginny and spell bounces off them, but I
> don't think JRK would use one plot device twice. At
> least I hope she won't


I've had a similar theory for a while. I think it could work:
Voldemort casts an AK at Ron and/or Hermione, Harry throws himself in
the way as a sacrifice. The combination of the power of love, and the
fact that Harry is a horcrux, causes Harry's horcrux (the last
remaining) to be destroyed, and the AK to rebound, finally killing LV.

It doesn't quite fit with the prophecy ("one will die at the hand of,
err, himself") but it has some good points.

Matthew