Originally posted by: Hans-Valkner
A few of the things you've given explainations for i don't really agree with. if you don't mind i'd like to tell you what i think happened.
How did Harry not die when Voldemort casted the killing curse on him in the Forbidden Forest?
Most people argue he did die. But it was really only the piece of Voldemort in him that died. Since Lily died for Harry she gave him the most protection that anyone could ever have against someone, the power of love (his secret weapon). Harry was vulnerable once he was saved the first time in Godric's Hallow. After that Harry could be killed by Voldemort, but since Voldemort took some of Harry's blood and put it into his own veins in Riddle's graveyard, the protection remained in tact. At this point Harry could not be killed Voldemort. So when Harry was hit by the killing curse the part of Voldemort was attacked and not Harry himself, he was just knocked out by the huge impact of part of his soul leaving.
At first i had no clue what the fuck happened but then it kind've just made sense. If you think about it Voldemort never used the elder wand on harry before he did that first killing curse. I think this is significant in explaining why harry didn't die. Ok so we thought that at first Harry died, but that didn't really happen. I think the part of voldemorts soul within harry died, not harry himself. Harry because the piece of soul was a part of him allowed him to "hitch" a ride to "death". He's just there he didn't actually die, and we know this from what dumbledore says to harry. He says that the piece of Voldemorts soul can't be helped. It's dead that's why, but notice that he doesn't say this to Harry. It's because harry is only dead on visitors terms and has the choice to go back or not. He chooses to go back. The point is that if Harry didn't have a piece of voldemorts soul in him at all then the killing curse wouldn't have affected him in the least. That's because Harry is the master of the elder wand, not Voldemort. Therefore the wand can not be used against Harry to any affect. We find this out almost immediatly when voldemort uses crucio on Harry. Nothing happens and that is to be expected. This is why i think Harry did not truly die. It sounds choppy because i left out quite a few other things to help prove this, but i think that what i've given is proof enough.
That was my initial theory as well. However, after JK said that being the master of the hallows didn't have significance to actually controlling whether or not one dies or not only let's one truly understand death. This is what saved Harry. You are a half right in theory however not in explanation.
Once Harry understands death, was the master of death, he knew there were worse things than dying. Harry would have had to have been "killed" in order for Voldemort to have died. Since Harry didn't fear death he allowed himself to be killed which killed the piece of Voldemort's soul. This and the blood were, like Matt said, joint theories.
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