What’s the point of the Deathly Hallows? Not the book, but the Hallows?

[Amanda]

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Question?  What's point of the Deathly Hallows? Truly? The point of a 
whole subplot thrust upon us in the final book when we have so much 
to deal with already?

Here's my answer. Long winded I know but I beg you to indulge me.

I'm obsessing over what really happened in the Forest between Voldy 
and Harry. And I've been flip flopping between two possibly answers. 
One answer has been proved wrong but I'll get to that in a moment. It 
was the struggle that gave me this theory, one I call Alternate Plan 
B.

Ok, so we know Harry Potter was able to survive Voldy's killing 
curse, yet again. We're told it's the blood protection from his 
mother, Lily, the so called ancient magic that gave him this ability, 
and it was because Voldy used Harry blood to regenerate. Voldy took 
on Lily's protection over Harry when he took his blood and reinforced 
the blood magic that tied Harry to him forever, making it such that 
Harry can't die unless Voldy is already dead.

OK, got that, even though that blood protection is supposed to have 
expired when Harry turned 17.  Oh well. Perhaps the sell by date only 
applies to extended family blood. It expired in Petunia but not in 
Voldy as Voldy has Harry's actual blood not his extended DNA.  That's 
how I'm going to deal with it anyhow.

So, if this is true I ask again my original question, what's the 
point of the Deathly Hallows? I get we needed a subplot to explain 
the Elder Wand and Voldy's need to possess a wand stronger than his 
own to defeat Harry with.  I understand we needed an explanation of 
the cloak and why it was extra special.  The stone was just a devise 
to enable Harry to see his dead family, again. But couldn't all that 
have been explained without coming up with this huge new Deathly 
Hallows plot that took up half the book and gave us too much 
information on DD's family strife and friendship with some dark 
wizard I couldn't care less about?

Well yes. Then I came up with this: Alternate Plan B.  What if the 
Deathly Hallows was DD's Alternate Plan B?

Before I get to that in greater detail on that I want to tell you 
what I mistakenly thought happened in the Forest between Harry and 
LV.  I thought's Harry actually died. Truly died, dead, gone, no 
more.  I read the whole of the King's Cross Station as if Harry was 
in Purgatory, (a quite brilliant Purgatory actually as the gateway 
between the muggle and wizarding worlds is the same as the gateway 
between life and death for Harry Potter), anyway Harry was in 
Purgatory chatting to DD and realizes he has the choice to return to 
life because (I later reasoned) Harry was the Master of all three 
pieces of the Deathly Hallows; The Cloak, the Wand and the Stone. 
Thus he was the Master of Death and got the Get Out of Purgatory Free 
Card. He came back, sans Voldy's soul fragment and ready to vanquish 
the Dark Lord.  

This would be brilliant if only it were true.  It gives us a solid 
reason for the Deathly Hallows, a solid reason for DD to have gone to 
so much trouble with it all and a solid and terrifying reason for the 
trio to have figure out the puzzle in time to save the world!

But we know this all to be wrong because a, DD tells us it's all down 
to the Blood Sacrifice/infusion and b, as Harry is the true Master of 
the Elder Wand, the wand wont work properly for Voldy (as 
demonstrated later when he uses the Cruciartus to abuse the 
Harry's `body' and Harry feels no pain) and so Voldy couldn't cast a 
true working AK.

So Harry didn't actually die. Damn. He only passed out, took 
advantage of the down time to hash out a theory with DD in his head 
before returning.

So again what's the reason for the Deathly Hallows if all it took was 
the blood sacrifice to save Harry Potter? 

My only conclusion is it's got to be Alternate Plan B, DD's back-up 
plan incase he was wrong on the blood sacrifice and Harry did 
actually die. DD needed a way to bring Harry back from the dead so he 
could finish the job the prophecy demanded and the WW needed. So DD 
needed the Deathly Hallows. He needed Harry to master the three 
pieces. He laid clues for the trio so they would find out in time but 
not be tempted on the way.

But if this is so, why oh, why, didn't JKR have DD explain this to 
us?  It would have only taken a couple of sentence in the last 
chapter. (Not the Epilogue, the real last chapter.) It would have 
been such a fulfilling ending to have Harry be true Master of Death, 
immortal, the Boy Who Lived Forever but choose to give it up because 
he wanted to live a normal life. Talk about temptation!

So what do you all think? Does this work? Please critique because 
it's driving me crazy. 

It raises interesting questions I think.  Questions about whether DD 
meant or not for Draco to become Master of the Elder Wand. Was that a 
mistake, the true `flaw in the plan'? Was DD desperately trying to 
convince Draco to change sides not to protect him, but to prevent the 
Elder Wand from slipping over to the Dark Side in a hand that was not 
trusted Snapes? Did DD want Snape to kill him so the Wand would 
become Snapes and Snape could thus give it to Harry are the right 
time? Ahhh
. there are many more
 but more later, maybe.

Cheers, Mandy