"We have protected him because it has been essential to teach him, to raise him, to let him try his strength," said Dumbledore closing his eyes to rest as the curse took it’s toll on him "Meanwhile, the connection between them grows ever stronger, a parasitic growth: sometimes I have thought he suspects it himself. If I know him, he will have arranged matters so that when he does set out to meet his death, it will, truly, mean the end of Voldemort."