Dumbledore

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 177378

Bart Lidofsky 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).
> 
zanooda replied: 
> 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 :-).

Carol responds:

As I understand it, Harry's willing self-sacrifice echoes his
mother's. He can't fight back or so much as lift a wand or the ancient
Love magic won't work. His only chance for survival is to allow
Voldemort to "kill" him, destroying the soul bit and activating the
love protection in his blood, which will continue as long as Voldemort
is alive. If Harry had destroyed all the Horcruxes, Voldie would have
been mortal, and Harry's AK if he cast one would have killed Voldie,
killing Harry along with him.

Carol, whose explanation works for her even if it doesn't work for
anyone else