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So, do you think that Harry dies first, and then Voldemort? Or the other way around? I mean, he HAS to kill Voldemort. Absolutely no question about that. He must destroy all Horcruxes. Now, the prophecy says something likes "they both cannont live" or something like that. However, it does not say that both can't die.
Personally, I think that Voldemort dies (obvious). I don't think (but not positive) that Harry will die. I think that Dumbledore is not dead or, at the very least, is still able to communicate with Harry somehow, through some avenue. I also think that Snape is a good guy (ties in with the Dumbledore being alive).
Discuss..........
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I don't know about the mechanics of their final duel specifically... I've given it a lot of thought, though. Voldemort has to die. That much is clear - Rowling isn't going to blow every fan under the age of 15 (which is a big part of her fan base) away by having Voldemort survive. So, he's gone. As for Harry, I think he's going to die because I really can't see him living without Voldemort as a wizard. He did so as a muggle, so, unless all of a sudden he's going to forget about his wizarding and live as a muggle (which I suppose is possible and a sh!tty way out), he too will die. I mean, what is he going to do after killing Voldemort? Become an Auror? That makes no sense whatsoever - ostensibly, there'd be no point in being an Auror once Voldemort is completely dead.
As for Dumbledore being dead, he definitely is. It would be really cheap if he came back. Harry needs to be on his own for the 7th book. This is the book that will complete his heroic plot arc, and to do so, he needs to grow alone.
Snape, for me, is a good character. I trust him. I think Dumbledore forced Snape to kill him at the top of that tower - sort of an external cyanide pill. I'll be that we'll find out in the 7th book that Snape and Dumbledore have been through that many times and rehearsed it and what not. In fact, Snape probably Occlumened (yay for conjugating invented nouns!) Dumbledore's mind when they were trapped. Also, Dumbledore had immobilized Harry under the Invisibility Cloak - why would he do that, if not to stop him from interfering from a pre-arranged plan? Of course Harry would have no idea, so he'd just react to Snape being a "traitor" and hex him. Dumbledore needed to die for Harry to be able to confront Voldemort on his own terms, IMO. Or else, Dumbledore would always be hanging around as a sort of safety net and Harry would never be able to come into his own. That being said, once he does come into his own, the arc will be complete, and I think that he will die, or at the very least, irrevocably exiled from the wizarding community with no memory at all, though I really hope that doesn't happen.
I like the idea of the Horcruxes, though I don't think that they were introduced too late. It would've been out of place earlier, because there would have been no drive behind Dumbledore's revelation. It was only at the end of the 5th book that Sirius died and Dumbledore began to confide in Harry. It couldn't have happened before that... I mean, books 1-3, Harry is too young to understand that kind of Dark Magic, and furthermore, book 4 is when Voldemort comes to power - before that, Dumbledore would really have no need to tell Harry about the Horcruxes; Voldermort was gone for a while, so Dumbledore had all the time he needed. I'm glad she didn't intro them in the 5h book, it would've been way too rushed, what with all the politics of that book, Voldemort wreaking havoc, Sirius dying, the prophecy (again, before Harry knew the prophecy, he didn't really know that he'd be the one to kill Voldemort), etc. I really hope the 7th book is fantastically long - I don't want it to end!
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