Why did Voldemort die though he had Harry's blood?
zanooda2
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Mon Sep 24 21:02:22 UTC 2007
No: HPFGUIDX 177358
--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> wrote:
> Dumbledore says in King's Cross that Voldemort is wrong to think
> Harry's blood will strengthen him.
zanooda:
I believe that Harry's blood could never protect LV the way it
protected Harry. Lily's sacrifice didn't make Harry immortal, it just
gave him protection from LV and LV alone, and not from any danger in
the world.
I think that's why DD told Snape it is essential that LV kills Harry
himself. If someone else killed Harry, the soul-bit would have been
destroyed, but Harry would have died (even though LV was still alive),
because he is not protected from other people, only from LV. Harry can
stay alive under two conditions: 1. His blood must remain in someone
living (LV), and 2. He must be killed by LV himself.
Harry's blood in LV's veins has the same protection - it protects from
LV, which makes no sense at all. How can it help LV survive? Maybe if
Voldie suddenly started hating himself :-), and decided to commit
suicide (hard to imagine)- the blood protection could have stopped him
from hurting himself - I don't know, even this is doubtful.
As it is, LV died, because, despite the fact that he shared blood with
still living Harry, he didn't kill himself. I mean, maybe technically
he did :-), but it was not his intention. It was more like an accident,
he didn't direct that AK at himself. Or maybe Harry's blood never
protected LV at all, maybe it can only protect Harry and no one else.
BTW, reading this thread, I had an impression that posters understand
the situation differently. Some of them, including the original poster
(sorry if I'm wrong :-), think that Harry's and LV's blood is the same
blood (Harry's), and, judging by the answers, other posters believe
that LV only has a drop of Harry's blood, and the rest of LV's blood is
his own (pre-GH, I suppose). To be clear, this post is based on "the
same blood" premise :-).
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