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Originally Posted by Gingobibble  I've had a good long hard think on this one. My thoughts are:
Voldemort was in a state of death here.
I say this because in the next chapter:
'The death eaters had been huddled round Voldemort, who seemed to have fallen to the ground. Something had happened when he had hit Harry with the Killing Curse. Had Voldemort, too, collapsed? It seemed like it. And both of them had fallen briefly unconscious and both of them had now returned.
I think they were both in the afterlife while at Kings Cross Station. Voldemort - the hideous baby. Harry - the flawless one.
I think that when the final moment of death was to arrive for Harry and Voldemort - their 'afterlife' physicality is now pre-determined. |
that all sounds right
this is obviously the two sided theory we're all having trouble with.
your justification seems right
however when i thoughtabout it... this was my idea
As logically as I can put it; - harry was a horcrux (or 'had' one) - which was destroyed right before kings cross - so the horcrux was gone - so it must be that the baby was the horcrux now removed from harry
being once harry leaves kings cross, it is left to 'get on a train' so to speak, and be gone for good.
it was beyond help.
I re-read the kings cross chapter and it appears as though it was implied that the flaky gross thing was the shard of voldemort... "I let him kill me,' said Harry. 'Didn't I?' 'You did,' said Dumbeldore, nodding. ' Go on!' 'So that part of his soul that was in me...' Dumbeldore nodded still more enthusiastically, urging Harry onwards, a broad smile of encouragement on his face. '...has it gone?' 'Oh, yes!' said Dumbeldore. 'Yes he destroyed it. Your soul is whole, and completely your own, harry.' 'But then...' Harry glanced over his shoulder, to where the small, maimed creature trembled under the chair. but in saying that. there are arguments for both. either way it was cleverly symbolic of harry's task reaching its end.