Dumbledore the Godfather

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 173931

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "allies426" <AllieS426 at ...> wrote:
>
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eggplant107" <eggplant107@> 
> wrote:
> >
> > "If I know him [Harry] he will have arranged matters so that when he
> > does set out to meet his death, it will truly mean the end of
> > Voldemort." And if Harry had managed to kill that snake as Dumbledore
> > expected before he so bravely walked into the Forbidden Forest to 
> meet
> > oblivion then both Harry and Voldemort would indeed have died at that
> > instant. This is what Dumbledore wanted this is what he expected. 
> 
> Allie:
> 
> No - King's Cross Dumbledore told Harry that he expected Harry to 
> survive.  The piece of Voldemort's soul inside Harry was all that he 
> expected to be killed.  But in theory you're right, if Harry was the 
> last Horcrux Voldemort would have died so how would Harry have 
> survived then?  (More unanswered questions, sigh.)
>

Dumbledore also knew people very well, and he knew that Voldemort
would eventually discover his Horcruxes were being attacked and put
Nagini under protection making it nigh impossible for Harry to
finished her before giving himself to sacrifice, she would be too well
protected, and the only thing that could make Voldemort remove those
protections would be Harry's death. All in all I'd say DD figured
Harry's odds of survival were pretty high, based on LV's predictable MO.

But Harry was in the most very real danger of final death when he
returned from the Kings Cross reality. Dumbledore probably predicted
this with some accuracy too. As he said, knowing Harry will have
arranged matters so that his death would be the end of Voldemort,
Dumbledore would have rightly guessed that someone in Harry's trust
was ready to take out Nagini as soon as her defenses were lifted. This
meant that Harry could die if Voldemort killed him upon returning, the
shared blood would probably have meant LV died *with* Harry, but
neither would come back this time with no horcruxes left to bind
them.... in any case... I would presume that DD rightly guessed that
Harry had a very good chance of surviving the destruction of his
horcrux, virtually no chance of surviving a second blow by Voldemort,
but overall, the best chance of vanquishing Voldemort in the process
however it played out.

Valky