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

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 164812

Annemehr wrote:
> >The inescapable conclusion is that DD *wants* LV to have a body
these days. It *has* to be part of the Plan -- that Plan that we
*still* don't know, and which inevitably entails the cost of the many
collateral deaths we read about in HBP.
>
> Bart:
> (Agreeing) With the horcruxes, Dumbledore could not have killed
Voldemort. Therefore, there must be a key vulnerability in this
particular body of which Dumbledore wishes to take advantage.

>
Carol responds:
Your point explains nicely why DD wouldn't want to *re*vaporize
Voldemort, as opposed to leaving him as vapor in PoA if he'd been
given that choice. And Jen's point about not being able to vaporize
Voldie without risking killing Harry, whom LV was possessing, is
another good reason for not vaporizing Voldie in the MoM that I
overlooked in my initial response to Annemehr.

But "a key vulnerability in this particular body" doesn't mean DD
would have wanted Wormtail to escape and resurrect Voldemort in the
first place, which is what Annemehr is arguing in the post you're
responding to. DD could not have anticipated that Wormtail would
restore Voldemort to *any* body, much less a body partially created
with Harry's blood. So choosing not to vaporize Voldemort in
the MoM for whatever reason does not prove that he wanted Wormtail to
*un*vaporize Voldemort in the first place. (See upthread for the
Wormtail/Guilty!DD portion of the argument.) 

Carol, not buying Guilty!DD *wanting* Wormtail to escape or granting
him quite the degree of omniscience required by Annemehr's version of
the (hypothetical) Plan