Why did Voldemort have to kill Harry *himself*?

[doddiemoemoe]

No: HPFGUIDX 173566

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "marthaforhp" <marthaforhp at ...> 
wrote:
>
> I've wondered about the answer to this question since near the end 
of  HBP, when Snape roars to the fleeing Death Eaters to remember 
their  orders and leave Potter to the Dark Lord.
 And in DH, in Malfoy's Manor, Bellatrix doesn't simply kill Harry and 
> be done with it. 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?
> 
> Martha
> 
Doddie here:

First...Voldie is a megalomaniac with narcissitic tendencies...
Second: If any but Voldie killed harry then they would usurp Voldie's 
hold on the DE's...(somehow I get the picture that if any of the DE's 
attempted such a feat then they would be killed through  their dark 
mark...much like Wormtails hand...(hence why Fenrir still doesn't have 
the dark mark...wow...no one wants to be the last survivor supporter.)
Third...given my theories above this is why voldie never sends Malfoy, 
nor Snape to do the dirty work yet again in DH....(I think Snape may 
have had an idea about the protean charm Voldie branded into their 
skin...and voldie never sent malfoy because he worried Lucious was 
only going to retrieve his son.(sad, yet true--come on...lucious is 
begging voldie to send him into Hogwarts to retrieve Harry without a 
wand) would be laughable if we didn't examine motives..
Fourth...Snape asks to "retrieve harry"...and voldie refuses..
(unfortunately by this point voldie is power hungry and wants all the 
power for his very own..

Voldie believes he alone, must kill Harry so he can live in legend and 
there can be no dispute to his power...but the truth is..that no power 
can destroy love....and even if one considers the deathly hallows...it 
was not the power they coveted over others as much as the power they 
themselves wanted...of which voldie had much(hence he only had the 
wand) and harry, who has neither power or everlasting life(nor hungry 
for either) is the true master of death(whether he has the artifacts 
or not)...and he had the ring, and the cloak--two against one...that's 
what was going on in Harry's corner in no one's mind but DD's..Snape 
had to die..DD did not trust snape in the end...the patronus may have 
been the clue to dd...snape wants harry to have "power"..Harry wants 
to live for his love..Snape well I don't believe Snape understands 
love..lily did though(or else harry would have died that 
night)...battling against the elderwand of which voldie had no power 
over...(something so simple as harry wanting to see those he loved and 
voldemort having no love--closest thing was bellatrix sychophanitic 
worship)..

Any of Voldy's DE's could have killed him over and over and over 
again...those that were the most powerfull(in voldies mind he gave 
them a "treasure to protect and cherish)...

The diary(the only po' ol' DE that wanted to ursurp some of those 
powers)

The cup to bellatrix... the only DE who probably in all likelihood 
loved him...but voldie was so sick and twisted I'd hate to see the 
marriage contract between Bella and Adolpholus..(I'll not delve into 
voldie's scream of rage at her death)...

The locket...well go Reg and Kreacher!

The ring..no one would link voldie's ancestors to live as the "tramps" 
in a muggle village...I believe that Vodlie thought this was an added 
protection against the DE's.


And the Diadem...the artifact only the most gifted of professors of 
hoggy's could have found(in voldie's mind)...(I'm sure he counted 
snape as one)..yet Voldie sent a young DE to work around w/in the room 
for many months...and even Draco had a suspicion about said room...

I suppose the sad fact is that Voldie felt he must kill harry himself 
so that his rule would remain supreme after his "take-over" of the 
ww...

Doddie,
(who knows this may be potter fact as Lucious not only dumped a 
horcrux but tried to usurp power over Hoggys in COS)