Harry's Resistance to Abuse and Imperius Curse

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No: HPFGUIDX 2657

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Catlady <catlady at w...> wrote:
> Harry's magical mother's love for him was strong enough to save him from
> the Avada Kedavra Curse, and remained in/on his body strongly enough
> that Voldemort couldn't bear the pain of touching him.
> 
> I think it also protected him from being too much psychologically
> crippled by the way the Dursleys treated him. 

	Harry seems to be able to do instinctively all sorts of things 
that other people have to be taught.
	He immediately knows how to ride a broomstick better than Charlie 
Weasley , he can throw off the imperius curse after an hour or so of 
training, he knows right away that plunging the basilisk's fang into 
Riddle's diary will destroy it. And, as many of you remarked, he has 
thrown off the soul destroying effects of ten years of child abuse. 
	Whatever Lily was doing on the night she died, I don't think it 
can have been accidental. Harry takes one look into Voldemort's eyes 
and knows it is no use to ask for mercy, so why was Lily  screaming and 
pleading? Was she in a hysterical panic? Or was she stalling for time 
while she used some obsolete form of magic, unrecognized by Voldemort, 
( no doubt learned from Nicholas Flamel), to protect her son?
Pippin