The Drought of the Draught

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The Draught of Living Death

As part of a revisit to some old issues, and due to some unexpected inspiration on my former sleep-filled morning tube (subway) journeys, I have had a nugget of thought about this potion that we have yet to see the applied use of in the HP series.

Comments

[liriop]

I really agree with the idea that Harry will go behind the veil. I have been thinking that before book six. I already thought he had a part of Voldemort inside his scar and I thought that Voldemort had made something to guarantee his immortality that would have to undone. JKR said things in her interviews and chats that made me think of it. The importance of asking why Voldemort had not died with the rebounded AK, why Dumbledore did not try to kill Voldemort, the fact that she didn't answer if we'd be seeing Sirius again and how, the fact that she mentioned that the importance of Harry's scar is not its shape.
And there are lots of clues in the book:
a)Things that remind us of greek mythology's heros that went to Hades and came back: Fluffy (Hercules went there to bring Cerberus to the world of the living), pomegranate seeds that can't be added to a potion, Ginny hurt her ankle (like Eurydice, Orpheus's beloved one);
b)The emphasis on the whole fear of death thing. That dialog of Dumbledore and Voldemort at chapter 36 in OotP and what follows. It seemed to me that Harry's power, the thing Voldemort knows not is not only love, but love that means challenging death, like Lily's love, like Harry's love for Sirius. Voldemort could understand a bit of the meaning of love, because he used Harry's love for Sirius to bring him to the DoM, but when it meant that Harry was ready to die, he couldn't stand that.
I don't think Harry will die. I agree with you that he will find some way to come back from the world beyond the veil. I only disagree it would be through that potion because it's just the opposite of what Harry needs. He needs to take his body beyond the veil to kill destroy the horcrux in it. So, faking death won't do. I think Luna and the researches her mother was doing when she died will help him (why did she mention how her mother died at all?).
If the potion is back, I bet it will be related to someone who faked their own death. Regulus, perhaps.

[beyond_pale]

b) ME TOO ME TOO!!!

In fact, I wrote a whole essay in this community explaining why it was not Harry's LOVE, per se, that expelled Voldemort from possessing him in the Ministry, but Harry's fervent and genuine in that moment DESIRE FOR DEATH.

His love was a catalyst, but not the cause.