Harry, impossible to kill?

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 177764

>> Jen wrote: 

>> So the AK killed the soul piece and destroyed the container. But 
>> because Harry's tethered to LV he can't really die, just as LV 
>> can't really die; 
>> <SNIP>
>> Tell me if I've muddled you're explanation instead of 
>> understanding it!

zanooda:

No, that's exactly what I believe :-). 


> Mike wrote:

> I still think the AK rebounded, but not at full power. That's why
> Voldemort got knocked out and experienced his own near-death. I 
> think Steve postulated this version up-thread.


I must have missed this, because lately I have access to the computer 
only occasionally. I have a problem with the entire concept of 
some "reduced power AK" though (including Angie's idea about the 
Elder wand sending a substandard curse to spare it's master <g>) or 
the curse rebounding not at full power - I can't even explain why, 
it's just the feeling that I get from the book. I believe that it's a 
real AK and that it killed Harry, who was only able to come back 
because of the shared blood and because he wanted to. 


> Mike wrote:

> The problem I'm having is the whole 'Harry must die as 
> the "container" of the soul piece' when Harry really didn't die - 
> Dumbledore said he wasn't dead.


I thought DD only said this because Harry had the choice to go back.


> Mike: 
 
> I believe it was Harry's soul that visited the King's Cross way 
> station as it was Voldemort's ravaged soul from his body that made 
> the trip.


Right.


> Mike: 

> But neither's body was dead.


Well, in my theory LV wasn't dead, because the curse didn't rebound 
:-). As for Harry, I don't really know what do you mean by saying 
that his body wasn't dead. In RL, when someone is not breathing and 
his heart stops - is he dead? If this person is then revived by CPR 
or a defibrillator - can we say that he was dead but came back to 
life? It's not all that simple, IMO. I think the entire King's Cross 
scene took just a few seconds in real time. Harry could be "dead" 
these few seconds.


zanooda, who waves back to Mike, and apologizes if she won't answer 
his next post, being unable to get to the computer again