Babbling on on Avada Kadavra mechanics

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 172923


Alexa:
> I have to say the entire King's Cross chapter creeped me right out 
> because of the way both Dumbledore and Harry ignored the writhing,
whimpering creature 
> right there in the same room with them. It didn't speak well of
either of them, in my 
> opinion. 


Harry didn't ignore the creature, he did try to help. 
The whimpering thing was Voldemort's soul in all the agony that he had
brought on himself through destroying it. While Harry was in that
white room what could he have done to repair the damage Voldemort had
done to himself? There was nothing. Tom Riddle's only chance, like an
iceberg in hell, was to find in him some remorse, like Grindlewald at
his death, something to repair his tattered soul before it was too
late and he had done his dying deed and chose it to be evil.  In the
final battle Harry warns Riddle of what he faces, a battle he can
never win, that will probably kill him, and a soul that has no joy in
the afterlife; the only chance Tom has is a moment of remorse, to
choose not to end his life as evil as he had lived it. 

Voldemort shot an AK at Harry, but we'll never really know what his
last thoughts were. Maybe Riddle knew he was defeated and cast it
knowing that it was the end of him but Harry never saw the look on his
face when he cast that last spell, we don't know how Voldemort faced
his death. Afterward, to Harry, his face looked vacant and unknowing,
so there's nothing there telling us which way Voldemort went down. In
the end he knew how to save himself and that was all Harry could ever
have done.  

Me, I'd like to think Tom Riddle did find that grain of remorse at
death, and that the rising sun hid his changing expression as he chose
to let it end in Harry's hands and go on to death, with a little hope
that he might get a second chance.

Valky