In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows it says," 'But...' Harry raised his hand instinctively toward the lightning scar. It did not seem to be there. 'But I should have died - I didn't defend myself! I meant to let him kill me!' 'And that,' said Dumbledore, 'will have made all the difference.' Happiness seemed to radiate from Dumbledore like light, like fire: Harry had never seen a man so utterly, so palpably content. 'Explain,' said Harry. 'But you already know,' said Dumbledore. He twiddled his thumbs together. ' I let him kill me,' said Harry. 'Didn't I?' 'You did, said Dumbledore, nodding. 'Go on!' 'So the part of his soul that was in me...' Dumbledore nodded still more enthusiastically, urging Harry onward, a broad smile of encouragement on his face. '...has it gone?' 'Oh yes!' said Dumbledore. '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. 'What is that Professor?' ' Something that is beyond either of our help,' said Dumbledore. 'But if Voldemort used a Killing Curse,' Harry started again, 'and nobody died for me this time - how can I be alive?' 'I think you know,' said Dumbledore. 'Think back. Remember what he did, in his ignorance, in his greed and his cruelty.' Harry thought. He let his gaze drift over his surroundings. If it was indeed a palace in which they sat, it was an odd one, with chairs set in little rows and bits of railing here and there, and still, he and Dumbledore and the stunned creature under the chair were the only beings there. then the answer rose to his lips easily, without effort. ' He took my blood,' said Harry. 'Precisely!' said Dumbledore. 'He took your blood and rebuilt his living body with it! Your blood in his veins, Harry , Lily's protection inside both of you ! He tethered you to life while he lives!' 'I live...while he lives? But I thought it was the other way round! I thought we both had to die? Or is it the same thing?'" (Rowling 708-709)
Analysis
This excerpt from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows shows us that even though Harry has started to figure things out there are still several this he still doesn't understand. We can also see that Dumbledore is still withholding information from Harry when he doesn't tell Harry what the creature under the chair is. He also doesn't come out and tell Harry what he wants to know he asks Harry questions to lead him to his desired answer. Harry has figured out that he isn't dead even though Voldemort had it him with a Killing Curse, which Harry made no move to deflect or to cast his own spell. In this passage we see Harry does in fact still trust and look up to Dumbledore, since he had been debating this most of the book because of a book Rita Skeeter a Daily Prophet report had wrote about Dumbledore saying that he wanted wizards to be greater than Muggles and that the wizards should be the greatest race. Since Harry had heard those things he started to wonder if he really knew and could trust Dumbledore. In this passage when he confides in him for answers it shows that he still needs Dumbledore and that he trusts him not to lead him astray.
Inferences
From this passage I can infer that since Harry did not fight back when Voldemort killed him that it will be important because it is similar to how his mother, Lily, had died because she died to save Harry and Harry "died" so that no one else could ide for him since so many of his friends had already perished for him, so in short he died to protect those people.
I can also infer that the Killing Curse hitting Harry and destroying the part of Voldemort's soul that had been placed with Harry's soul,the day that Voldemort killed his parents and attempted to kill him, will at least hurt Voldemort if not weaken him because there is only one more Horcurx (his snake)to destroy and then Voldemort can be eliminated.
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