What HP Character Scares You Most?

[Geoff]

No: HPFGUIDX 191883



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

Geoff:
Yes, but my point was that Voldemort [let's not be afraid of using his 
proper name :-)] couldn't overcome Harry. That presumably wasn't 
apparent to either combatant at that time. I agree that the final Horcrux 
had to be destroyed to allow Voldemort to be totally defeated and not 
have a re-run of the 1980 scenario, which was why it was so important 
that Nagini was taken out after the Forest encounter.