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[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 164797


> 
> Annemehr:
> Well okay, but *if* DD would have wanted to *prevent* LV regaining a 
> physical body, by preventing Pettigrew's escape, then why isn't LV a 
> vapor *now,* when he so easily could be?
> 
> "'You do not seek to kill me, Dumbledore?' called Voldemort, his 
> scarlet eyes narrowed over the top of the shield.  'Above such 
> brutality, are you?'" [OoP ch. 36, US p. 814]
> 
> (Well, actually, no he isn't. Dumbledore cannot be too noble to *kill* 
> the likes of LV, if he is not too noble to charge a 16-year-old boy 
> with the task. [HBP ch. 23, US pp. 510-512])
> 

Pippin:
Actually, he might  be. Harry is only charged with taking one life.
The rebounding AK which struck Voldemort and failed to kill
him destroyed an entire house. An AK rebounding from Voldemort
would doubtless have killed Dumbledore and could have collapsed
the entrance hall, killing Harry and Bella, and maybe the Order
members and the captured DE's trapped below as well. That's
a lot of lives to sacrifice for what might only be a temporary respite. 
There is no guarantee that Voldemort would remain
disembodied for as long as he did before. 

Pippin