The Pig to be Slaughtered

[deepam]

No: HPFGUIDX 172713


> > Lupinlore:
> > Well, except that by DH, at least, he wasn't intending Harry to be a
> > pig for slaughter.  He was intending Harry to live and triumph
> > through the resurrection magic that he was confident would be
> > activated by Harry's selfless sacrifice.  He was, in effect, lieing
> > in his conversation with Snape (as, to be fair, JKR lied. or at least
> > bent truth to the breaking point, when she said magic could not bring
> > back the dead).
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> Neri:
> As much as I can make sense of Dumbledore's original plan, Snape was
> to be killed by Voldemort and the Elder Wand end with no master. Harry
> was supposed to eliminate all the other Horcruxes, then find he's the
> last Horcrux, go sacrifice himself, Voldemort would kill the Horcrux
> inside him, and then what? It still leaves Harry to fight Voldemort on
> skill alone, effectively a pig to be slaughtered.
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> Who was to kill Voldemort in the end
> I have no idea.
>

You got everything right, but one point that you forgot, which
Dumbledore strongly depended on is this: Harry has a piece of
Voldemort's soul but Voldemort has Hary's blood in him. Since this
blood is protected by Lily's magic, Harry will not die till even one
drop of his blood survives. When Harry willingly "gets killed" by
Voldemort, the magic "tethers both of them" to life.
When Harry fights (in the next round), then since he is the master of
Elder Wand, and he is willingly fighting back and he is fighting with
the "other Draco wand" (Draco had two wands which switched allegiance
to Harry after he overcame Draco), and Voldemort does not have any
more horcruxes left to protect. All these complex magic go in to
ensure the spell rebounds and kills Voldemort.

To the large Dumbledore knew Harry had more than one protection to
help him if he willingly dies. The rest was not in Dumbledore's hand
but he knew Harry would have one more chance to fight Voldemort.

my 0.02 cents.
-Deepa