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

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 164827

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 to Bart:
> 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.

Jen: Proposing Dumbledore didn't kill Voldemort because he might kill 
Harry as well wasn't a reference to LV possessing Harry.  I was 
suggesting Dumbledore didn't vaporize him because either he 
*couldn't* for reasons connected to the rebirthed body or DD thought 
he might inadventently kill Harry in the process (or both).  My idea 
was the rebirth was the final piece of the self-fulfilling prophecy 
and possibly more evidence for Harry and Voldemort being tied 
together only by the 'curse that failed' and the events of the 
graveyard rather than the errant soul piece option.

Why propose this?  One big reason is because of how the MOM battle 
was handled in HBP...it wasn't!  If Dumbledore's main reason for not 
attempting to kill Voldemort was the Horcruxes and Carol's logic in 
post #164807, then the MOM battle should have been wrapped up in the 
Horcrux chapter of HBP in my opinion.  Dumbledore may not have known 
he was explaining everything to Harry for the last time but JKR did.  
A simple sentence would have closed the door on the MOM: 'You may 
wonder why I did not seek to kill Voldemort in the Ministry, Harry?  
I suspected Voldemort's Horcruxes made it impossible for him to die, 
that he would have returned to a vapor state once again.  I believed 
that it was more important for the WW to know Voldemort had indeed 
returned rather than delaying the inevitable once again.' (You know, 
something to that effect <g>.)

Yes, Harry can come to this conclusion on his own but why would he 
need to if the question is already answered?  JKR said this was one 
of *the* most important questions we could ask and since the MOM 
battle wasn't fully explained in HBP, and the gleam wasn't either, I 
believe there could be a connection.

Jen R.