Back to The Plan (Was:Re: Father Figures)

[Annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 164801

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> 
wrote:
>
> 
> > 
> > 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. 

Annemehr:
Why would an AK rebound from Voldemort?  As far as I know, it would 
hit Voldemort and destroy his body; the only difference from usual 
being that his (piece of) soul would remain bound to Earth.  I always 
thought it was the more unusual event of the AK rebounding from baby 
Harry that destroyed the house.

But in any case, if we are counting deaths, then by leaving LV in his 
body, DD is responsible for the deaths of the people on the collapsed 
bridge, maybe some in the "hurricane," Madam Bones, Emmeline Vance, 
and Hannah Abbot's mother.  "Anyone we know dead?" Ron would ask 
Hermione, every time she opened the Daily Prophet. [HBP ch. 11, 221 
US]

And, if there were blowback involved in AKing Voldemort, I'm sure DD 
would not have been taken by surprise as LV was at Godric's Hollow.

Annemehr