The highly debated passage below still leaves me with questions:
Quote:
GoF The Parting of the Ways pg. 696
"He said my blood would make him stronger than if he'd used someone else's," Harry told Dumbledore. "He said the protection my - my mother left in me - he'd have it too. And he was right - he could touch me without hurting himself, he touched my face."
For a fleeting instant, Harry thought he saw a gleam of something like triumph in Dumbledore's eyes. But next second, Harry was sure he had imagined it, for when Dumbledore had returned to his seat behind the desk, he looked as old and weary as Harry had ever seen him.
"Very well," he said, sitting down again. "Voldemort has overcome that particular barrier. Harry, continue, please."
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So, I would assume this all was part of how
Harry survived his final meeting with
Voldemort. This particular quote has always confused me as to its deeper significance.
Dumbledore surely knew about
Voldemort's Horcruxes by this point and he seemed to have a lot more knowledge about Lily's sacrifice and its importance to
Harry.
Quote:
DH King's Cross Pg. 709
"He took my blood," said Harry.
"Precisely!" said Dumbledore. "He took your blood and rebuilt his living body with it! Your blood in his veins, Harry, Lily's protection inside both of you! He tethered you to life while he lives!"
"I live - while he lives? But I thought . . . I thought it was the other way around! I thought we both had to die? Or is it the same thing?"
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That quote was a little confusing for me. I can buy the fact that
Harry survived because he did not defend himself in the face of death, in his willingness to stop the battle and save his friends, but the highlighted part has me wondering still. The
neither can live while the other survives does not fit with any of it.
But the next part gave me back all my faith in
Dumbledore that I lost looking into
Snape's Penseive memories . . .
Quote:
DH King's Cross Pg 710
"And you knew this? You knew - all along?"
"I guessed. But my guesses have usually been good," said Dumbledore happily . . .
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Thinking of
Snape's Penseive memory and how cold and cruel
Dumbledore seemed with the knowledge that
Harry had to die, it made me feel a little sorry for
Snape. According to the passage above,
Dumbledore was pretty sure
Harry would not have to die, yet he led
Snape to believe that
Harry did have to die in order to stop
Voldemort. And
Snape's memory led
Harry also to believe that he had to die.
Was that all part of
Dumbledore's plan????
Quote:
DH pg. 707 King's Cross
"Harry." He spread his arms wide, and his hands were both whole and white and undamaged. "You wonderful boy. "You brave, brave man. Let us walk."
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So, taking all the quotes into consideration, did
Dumbledore know, even three years prior to
Harry and
Voldemort's final meeting, that
Harry would have to be brave enough to face
Voldemort wandless and face death in order to defeat
Voldemort?
The last quote showed that
Harry met
Dumbledore's expectations of him, obviously!
I don't now if JKR will ever be pinned down long enough to explain in detail to us
"hounds" the answers to all of our questions completely!