[HPforGrownups] Re: What HP Character Scares You Most?

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 191882

On 3/3/2012 4:12 PM, Geoff wrote:
> I agree that Harry had to go willingly to face Voldemort believing 
> that he would be killed, but by now, Harry was already the Master of 
> the Elder Wand and was also still protected by his mother's love. 
> Therefore, Voldemort should not have been able to win the duel in the 
> Forest. The only reasons why he was not totally defeated at this point 
> was that (1) there were still Horcruxes existing after the one inside 
> Harry was destroyed and (2) Harry did not counteract his spell by 
> defending himself as he did in the Great Hall later where the Elder 
> Wand's power "to perform as legend says it must perform for its 
> rightful owner" is unleashed. In these circumstances, Harry had to 
> survive the encounter.

  Bart:
     The mother's love protection was gone. He did have the Elder Wand, 
but the Mortysoul had to be destroyed for Morty to be defeated.

     Bart