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strange,
Spoiler: as for the question of why harry had to be the one to kill voldemort, aside from anything else, i think you have to think about consistency of the book, and the structure of fairy tales. we've known that a final showdown between harry and voldemort was coming from the first book on. there is no way that rowling could have written the ending without a duel in which harry and voldemort dueled, with harry coming out on top. the structure of this story is hardly unique; it follows the classic hero/protagonist vs. evil/antogonist theme, where the hero has to overcome obstacles and sometimes face his inner demons before challenging the bad guy and defeating him. frequently he has to accept that he will have to die in order to defeat the bad guy, but persevere through this fear, and usually he somehow survives in a way no one could have predicted.
i still don't see the evil dumbledoor angle you're reading from the story. i see a dumbledore who has a young wizard, who happens to be the only person to face voldemort and live, much less win in a fight with him, who is already targeted straight at voldemort because his parents and friends have been killed by voldemort, and who accepted (when joining the order of the phoenix, if nothing else, and pursuing him to the ministry of magic to try and save his godfather) the fact that he might be killed by voldemort. sure, he could have taken the days or months or years, after he had the curse from the stone horcrux, and attempted to hunt down the othe horcruxes with harry and the gang...but don't forget the he also had to consider what would happen to draco malfoy if he had. voldemort intended to use draco in an assassination attempt, which would have almost definitely killed him; and if it hadn't, voldemort would have killed draco to get the elder wand from him. so he and snape both acted to prevent draco from being killed during the assassination attempt, and using the possibility that snape might be able to destroy the elder wand. there was also the consideration that voldemort had to actually take some of harry's blood into himself during the duel, so that in some way the protection of his mother's love would transfer and destroy voldemort from within. all in all, it looks like harry had to be the one to face voldemort, and he had to die during the duel, and dumbledore hoped that he would survive after the horcrux within harry was destroyed. if harry had just straight up died, that would have been the price they had to pay to defeat voldemort.
however, even with all that - this is a fairy tale and a children's story, written like the disney animation movies so that it is palateable to adults as well. i think if you try to find all the plot holes or would have could have should haves in it...you can definitely find a way to kill it. in the end, the good guys won, the bad guys lost, everyone got to fall in love, one of the twins was saved, the werewolves the lady with the crazy hair all died, harry got reunited with his parents again briefly, and we all were reassured that death is nothing to be afraid of. we even got a matrix-like scene in a train station, complete with out of body experience. for a cheap read over a weekend, i thought it went pretty well and had some interesting plot twists.
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