[HPforGrownups] Why did Voldemort have to kill Harry *himself*?

[Tracy Woods]

No: HPFGUIDX 173548


Martha:
" Yet the original prophecy says nothing about who has to kill whom,
only that neither can live if the other survives.

What have I missed?"

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Newbie jumping in here.  The prophecy also states that Harry is the one
"with the power to destroy the dark lord."  I think that it's important to
remember, when speaking about LV, that we are dealing with an immensely
arrogant, event narcissistic personality here.  He would want to prove that
this little boy cannot destroy him, and he would want to do it all while
having the satisfaction of destroying this boy himself.  Without coming down
to a battle between him and the boy, who is to ever say that the boy would
not have destroyed him?  Then other people may begin to think that whoever
killed the boy would be able to destroy LV as well, since they destroyed the
boy with the power to destroy him.  Is that making sense?  It's LV's way of
proving that prophecy wrong.

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