Harry's scar, love, and the death of Voldemort

bfiw2002 bfiw2002 at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 10 21:16:40 UTC 2007


No: HPFGUIDX 171542

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> Carol responds:
> I can see Harry offering to die but not to sacrifice his soul to a
> Dementor. In any case, the problem with the whole Harry!Horcrux 
theory
> (any version) is that it's circular. 
snippage

Biff
I absolutely agree in the circular logic of the Harry is a Horcrux 
theory. But for me, that logic was solved by the dementors. What if 
Harry is a Horcrux. He knows he has to destroy the bit of LV that's 
inside him and realizes that the only way to do that is to die. But 
wait- there are the dementors, who feed on people's souls. So Harry 
decides to sacrifice himself to the dementors to save the world from 
LV. He receives the slimy kiss- and lives! The dementor who has 
sucked out LV's soul shrivels and dies, a la The Wicked Witch of the 
West who just had water thrown on her. Harry, now more himself than 
he ever was, is filled with the love of his departed parents and 
Sirius and supported by his friends. He defeats LV, who has seen 
that Harry has succeeded in destroying the last Horcrux, is weakened 
by fear of his mortality and the aura of love surrounding Harry. He 
too succumbs to the water-on-the-witch death throes. 
Okay, so a bit over the top, but it does essentially provide for a 
living Harry at the end of DH.

Biff- who is stubborn enough to believe this, but not so stubborn to 
believe anything else that strikes her fancy






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