[HPforGrownups] Back to The Plan (Was:Re: Father Figures)

[Kathryn Jones]

No: HPFGUIDX 164819


>>> 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])
>>>

> Annemehr

   KJ Writes:

     I think that part of it is that Dumbledore has made it his 
responsibility to do everything he can to get rid of Voldemort 
completely.  If he just vaporized him again, Dumbledore would probably 
not live long enough to set the plan in motion.  He is already 150 years 
old.  He intended to see the end of Voldemort, but was too damaged by 
the protections on the horcrux, and finally Snape's dispatch.  I think 
that he felt that everything was set up as best he could and was able to 
  leave it in the hands of Harry.  As long as Harry knows that he has to 
find all of the horcruxes first, he will end up in a position to do 
something about Voldemort. Snape, is presumably in a position to assist 
Harry.

KJ