Dumbledore

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 177360

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl at ...> wrote:

> Now, for reasons I can guess, but are not at all clear in canon, in 
> order for this thing to work, Harry had to believe that he was 
> sacrificing himself, and Morty had to have no idea of what was 
> going to happen (my best guess, and it's only a guess, is that 
> Harry needed to believe he was going to die in order to fully 
> expose the Mortysoul to the AK).


Yes, it's a very confusing part. Why did Harry need to believe that 
he is sacrificing himself? Why wasn't he allowed to know that he may 
survive? I thought about it so much, and I still don't have an 
answer. Here is the only explanation I came up with (it is in some 
agreement with your guess, which gave me the courage to write about 
it):

DD was afraid that if Harry fought for his life or even just hoped to 
survive, the blood protection would kick in and LV's AK would rebound 
again (like in GH), so the soul-bit wouldn't be destroyed. Maybe 
Harry needed to embrace death in order for the AK to work, and to 
embrace death you need to believe firmly that it is coming. It's a 
rather weak explanation, but it's the only one I could think of :-).


zanooda