Harry, impossible to kill?

[errolowl]

No: HPFGUIDX 177759

bboyminn:
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Now, in the final Duel, several things are coming into play, and in 
that case, we get a true and total rebound of the Death Curse. 
Voldemort is no longer protected, so he dies. But what made the 
final curse rebound? It could be complex or it could be simple. It 
maybe that Harry simply casting /any curse/ at the moment that 
Voldemort sends his curse, caused the rebound. That has been 
demonstrated several times in the series. It could have been Lily's 
protection. It could have been the Master-of-the-Wand effect. It 
could be Harry's self-sacrifice. Or, it could be a combination of 
all or some of these things. We will never know for sure, all we do 
know it that Harry had many things working for him in that final 
confrontation,and all or some of them worked.


Errol:

And lets not forget the Hallows. I'm jumping in here, and this may 
have already come up, but technically Harry possessed all three 
hallows and thus was the legendary "master of death" at that point 
in time. He had the invisibility cloak. Judging by the final 
outcome, the wand had accepted him as its master. And he had 
possession of the stone right up to that point. He couldn't be 
killed if the legend had any truth to it.

OTOH, the wise brother in the legend choose to cast aside his 
protection and go out to meet death as a friend. So I guess you 
could volunteer to get killed and reject the protection.

The point is, I wonder why JKR wrote in so many things that would 
serve the purpose of protecting Harry. Just one plot device, 
sufficiently set up would have done. The blood, the wand, the 
hallows, the sacrifice ... seems like over kill to me.

As a side note, when did Harry figure out the possibility that he 
owned the wand? If he knew in the forest that he probably possessed 
all three Hallows, that makes his sacrifice all the more laudable. 
If he figured it out later, it takes away from the whole hallows 
plot point. I am curious what people think about this.


Errol 
(Who's not at all clear what the point of the Hallows was anyway.)