Zonko: Hello. Long time waiter and first time (for zonks) hearer.. !!- where have you been??!! * read in a Mrs Weasley's angry tone*.

Gathering my pride around me like a Flaminco dancer's skirt and chin held high, I advance on you el Zonko: Naaaaaaaaaa! I don't reckon that Tom is just a memory. Doen't it say, in CoS, that Tom was draining the life outta Ginny; that she was dying as Tom was becoming alive??? He manipulated and drained Ginny and was therefore, way more than any forgettable dream or transluecent ghost, he could and would become as real as his intent! Tom was more than a figment or a shadow, he was real.

Sorry my lovely Zonko, who i adore like a brother and, with the greatest respect, I say: ... WHAT??! There is nothing in the CoS that suggests that Tom isn't a livin', breathing, thinking, kinniving, scheming, ambitious, ruthless mungrel (well except for the 'livin and breathin' bit)! Yeah Tom underestimated the powers of Good but then again so did/ does Voldemort.

Jo says that we should be asking ourselves: "Why did the curse rebound?" and the last word of the next book (so we're told) is 'scar'. The link between Voldemort and Harry has not been fully explained. If, as zonko says, Voldemort may not be able to kill Harry, can Harry kill Voldemort?

I think that Voldemort can't kill Harry 'cause the same protection spell that saved him 15 years ago is as strong today and forever. But the relationship and the 'killability' of either Voldy or Harry, really hasn't been tested. Maybe Voldemort can't kill Harry but maybe Harry can't kill Voldemort....???

Voldemort has mammoth pride, and we all know what happened to the mammoth!