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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nonamazing" data-source="post: 2514166" data-attributes="member: 12118">There are a lot of neat theories and ideas popping up all over this thread.  If no one minds, I'd like to put in my two cents in regards to a few of these things.First of all, I strongly suspect that Harry is going to die in the final book.  There's a lot of good arguments both for and against this idea, and I can't really say anything with certainty, but that's the way it feels to me.  It makes sense if you interpret the prophecy to mean that neither can live while the other survives (possibly meaning that both must die).  If Harry does die, however, he will sacrifice himself out of love, as love is the only power/force that is greater than Voldemort.  (This may be a bit outlandish, but Harry may even have to go so far as to understand and forgive Voldemort in order to defeat him).There are also a lot of people discussing both sides of the 'Harry as Horcrux' theory.  I'm not sure either way, but a lot of people arguing against it have said that Voldemort wouldn't be trying to kill Harry if Harry was a Horcrux.  But why not?  There's no indication that destroying a Horcrux destroys the piece of soul remaining in it (in fact, if that were the case, I don't think Dumbledore would be so willing to destroy the other Horcruxes--destroying even a fragment of a soul seems kind of evil).  Doesn't Dumbledore say at one point that a soul can't actually be destroyed?Maybe when the Horcruxes are destroyed, that 'chunk' of soul is sent back to Voldemort?  And maybe that's Dumbledore's real reason for trying to destroy the Horcruxes--to fix Voldemort's shattered soul and offer him a chance at redemption (after all, Dumbledore is pretty big on the whole second chances thing--and with Harry and Voldemort's souls connected, maybe Dumbledore figures Voldemort will pick up some goodness and love from Harry).  But some of that is pretty extreme speculation, and I'm not too sure about it.  It seems maybe a little too sentimental and schmaltzy to be true.  I don't know.I don't doubt that Dumbledore's presence will be felt in the final book, but I also don't think he'll be coming back to life.  I suspect that Harry will find some memories that Dumbledore left in the Pensieve for him (and recovering those memories would provide a good motivation for Harry to return to the school).</blockquote>

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