Book 7: The end of Voldemort

[pickle_jimmy]

No: HPFGUIDX 169804

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Goddlefrood" <gav_fiji at ...> 
wrote:
> 
> Having looked over the original theory, I must say it seems 
> inordinately unlikely to me. Lord Voldemort may be arguably 
> certifiable, but he's not dumb. In order to kill himself with 
> an AK reflecting from the Mirror of Erised he'd have to be one 
> of the world's greatest suckers, and, well, he simply is not.

An AK reflected off of a child protected with his mother's love has 
already "nearly" finished him off (if not for horcruxes, maybe it 
would have)

> Additionally the Mirror of Erised is an inanimate object and all 
> the inanimate objects we have so far seen hit by AKs (think of 
> the Magical Brethren in the MoM or the masonry the blond Death 
> Eater took large chunks out of during the field day at Hogwarts) 
> have smashed. Why would the Mirror of Erised be any different? 

Canon does describe curses and jinxes ricocheting, bouncing, and 
being rebounded back at the attacker, so it is not unheard of to 
rebound a jinx/curse...

If you believe that Dumbledore is dead, then you already note that 
while one AK can leave people perfectly "untouched" (Riddle's 
family), another can have a totally uplifting (Dumbledore over the 
tower wall) effect - not all AKs have physical destruction in mind.

And while the Mirror of Erised doesn't move, it *is* a magical 
object, unlike the brickwork at hogwarts or the statues at the MoM - 
which did suffer under the attack of the death eaters. 

In response to other questions:
 Q. why would Harry have to turn evil to kill Voldey?
 A. sending out a curse isnt like pulling the trigger on a gun, you 
cant accidentally AK someone, "you have to mean it" - which means you 
have to want to kill. I think it is hard to say Harry still good if 
he has successfully AKed someone

 Q. What about the Prophecy
 A. The prophecy says "and either must die at the 
hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives"
It does say "at the hand" not "by the hand" which may only mean that 
they are both in close proximaty when one dies - Harry was "close at 
hand" when Voldy bites the dust...

All I am saying is that I see a Frodo/Gollum kind of ending where, 
when Voldemort perishes it is not because he is cursed by Harry or 
Neville. I think the Mirror is a cool magical device, and it should 
make a comeback - I'm suggesting that maybe it could be Voldy's 
downfall. But... if not the Mirror, I am still inclined to think that 
JK will use some "device" from one of the other books - it just seems 
to be her style.

Pickle Jimmy