Babbling on on Avada Kadavra mechanics

[elync64]

No: HPFGUIDX 172853

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jwlerch78" <jwlerch78 at ...> 
wrote:
>It's
> not that possessing all 3 makes you the master of death; you need to
> be the Master of death in order to possess all 3 safely.

A great way to look at it, IMO. Being master of death means accepting 
it as an inevitable part of the cycle of life rather than fearing it, 
as Voldemort did. Voldemort's possession of the Hallows would be a 
disaster, his fear of death and obsessive desire for control (which 
is a hallmark of those who cannot accept the ultimate inevitability 
of death) would cause him to use them for horrible purposes to try 
and ensure his own power and immortality. Only one who does not 
desire those things, who accepts death as "the next great adventure," 
can be trusted to possess the Hallows without using them to escape it.

The master of death has not mastered death, he hasn't avoided it or 
outrun it or subverted it; he doesn't *need* to, because what he's 
mastered is his own fear of its inevitability.

Lyn