GoF CH 27-29 Post DH look/ Snape and Harry redux

[montavilla47]

No: HPFGUIDX 182254

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sistermagpie" <sistermagpie at ...> wrote:
>
> > > Alla:
> > > Yeah, I do. I also understand that all it takes to destroy him 
> is 
> > to destroy his horcruxes one by one and teenagers seem to do quite 
> > well. 
> > snip
> > 
> > Potioncat:
> > Well, no. All the Horcruxes had to be destroyed, then he had to be 
> > killed, even without an intact Horcrux, he was a powerful wizard. 
> > And, not just anyone could have let LV AK them with the same 
> results 
> > Harry achieved.  
> 
> Magpie:
> But not just anybody would have to allow themselves be killed by an 
> AK. Harry had to do that because he was a sort-of Horcrux. If 
> Voldemort hadn't had his explosion at Godric's Hollow we'd just be 
> talking about a powerful Wizard who had to be killed seven times--
> and each one of those killings could be done by anybody as long as 
> they had the right weapon, be it Ron Weasley with basilisk venom or 
> Vincent Crabbe with Fiend Fire. After that he'd just be a mortal 
> Wizard who could be killed. A powerful Wizard, but not an invincible 
> one. I don't see anything about Voldemort that makes him 
> unbeatable.  
Montavilla47:

A minor quibble, Magpie.  It's logical to think that the Horcruxes
acted like the lives of a cat, so that if Voldemort had made six
of them, you simply had to kill him seven times.  But it doesn't
actually seem to work like that.  When Voldemort was killed
the first time (by the rebounding AK), it didn't seem to affect
the Horcruxes then in existence.  None of them became less 
evil or powerful or... went dead like a broken lightbulb.  

So, I don't think it just a matter of killing him. As long as he
had any Horcruxes working, he'd come back.  

Also, both time Voldemort died, it was his own AK that did it.  I 
wonder, although there's absolutely no canon to back it up, 
whether an AK fired by just anybody, James Potter say, would 
have been able to stop Voldemort.  Maybe it would have just
bounced off, and it was only the self-inflicted AK that could
get through the protection of the Horcruxes.

I kind of wish JKR had put in something like that.  It would have
help build Voldemort up as a villain if he had withstood AKs
before the night at GH.  It would help us get why people were 
so reluctant to engage him.