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

[Amanda]

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> Yup, I think you're right. DD put together his little will gifts 
> *before* he knew he had failed to defuse the wand. So he was 
sending 
> them on a hunt for two items they already had and one that should 
> have been *worthless*. As far as DD knew Voldy had no idea about 
the 
> DH, and so no idea that Voldy would go chasing the wand, which 
> should have been out of service anyway!!!
> 
> The wand btw has a nasty habit of skipping out on its owner, 
> probably because its master is Death. How happy would it be to be 
> decommissioned by the peaceful passing of its current owner?
> 
> Regards
> Jo
>

Now I'm thinking it is all perhaps a morality tale designed to 
prepare Harry for what he has to do; except, willingly, his own 
demise.

But is it a tale to warn Harry against the desire to cheat death and 
to just accept it, which he must do OR is it a tale to give Harry the 
idea to cheat death?

Clearly the stone is there to help Harry on his way to show him death 
is painless and even desirable in his case as everyone he loves most 
dearly are already dead and waiting for him to join them.  Sirius 
even assuages Harry's concern that death is painful.

But the cloak? The cloak can only be used to cheat death if one also 
hides from life. It would be impossible to whip the cloak out just as 
death was bearing down on you. You have to wear it all the time. 
(Interestingly Harry does this though most of the battle, hiding from 
everything while friends and colleagues fight around him. If he 
didn't have a `higher' purpose it would be cowardly to the extreme.)  
The purpose of the cloak is to hide, but Harry can not stand before 
LV hidden under the cloak so the cloak is not there to save him from 
death. It is there to carry him safely to the assigned point death.

So it looks like DD used the DH to get Harry to where he needed to be 
to die. But this suggests that DD was also relying completely on the 
blood protection to save Harry. That's a huge risk as DD wasn't even 
sure that would work.

But I can't get past this idea that the immortal power of the Deathly 
Hallows had to be a part of DD plan at some point.

DD has this huge problem does he not? He has a boy who is the only 
one who can vanquish the Dark Lord. But the boy holds inside himself 
a piece of LV soul and LV can not be killed while his soul fragments 
are intact. The boy must die for LV to become vulnerable yet the boy 
is the only one who can finish the job.  DD need to somehow figure 
out a way for the boy to die, destroying the soul fragment AND then 
come back to finish off Voldy.  Harry has to cheat death and DD has 
the way to do it in his hands; the Deathly Hallows.  It must have 
occurred to DD to use them. It would be to tempting to unite all 
three Hallows as DD knows full well how dangerous that is so he plans 
on taking out of the equation one piece; the Elder Wand. Leaving 
behind two pieces the stone and the cloak. 

Was DD tempted, even a little bit to use the DH to protect Harry?

I must do a re-read. This is driving me crazy.

:-)

Mandy