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The awesome Harry Potter ending J.K. Rowling didn't even know she had
Someone had an idea about how the Harry Potter books should have ended and it's fantastic. And when I say fantastic I mean this is truly, objectively what Harry Potter's final fate should have been in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and J.K. Rowling screwed it up. Call your editor, J,K. You have some work to do.
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It applies logic, but its flawed. It follows:
If H lives, then V dies.
If V lives, then H dies.
But with this logic, both may die. There is nothing stating that the other is alive if one is dead, only that if one lives the other is definitely dead.
For further clarification. If Harry is dead, it doesn't mean that Voldemort has to be alive and done it. Harry could have been mauled by a hippogriff (or w/e) and it wouldn't be proof of Voldemort's aliveness. It just means that Harry is dead.
That... is pretty deep. It would have been interesting if that had actually been touched on in the books.