[HPforGrownups] Re: Pushing HP, was factoids; PS: Voldy's wand

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 2263

Brooks R wrote:

> And when Wormtail
> did the whatever - homunculus, by my theory - spell to re-flesh
> Voldemort originally, the wand re-manifested itself.

Do you mean the spell to make him the little baby-size gross thing that
drank venom, or the spell that brought him back? Because the wand was around
before the re-raising, because it killed Frank Bryce, the Muggle caretaker
of Riddle House.

And in scanning the end of book 4 to make sure it was a spell performed by
Wormtail that got the first icky little body, I saw that Voldemort says the
protection Lily gave Harry in defending him was "unwitting":

<begin quote, Voldemort is speaking>
His mother died in the attempt to save him -- and unwittingly provided him
with a protection I admit I had not forseen . . . I could not touch the
boy...
<slight snip>
his mother left upon him the traces of her sacrifice . . . This is old
magic, I should have remembered it, I was foolish to overlook it . . .
<end quote>

This seems to undermine our theories that Lily worked up some sort of charm,
doesn't it? If what she did was not a conscious act on her part, but is
recognized for what it was (whatever it was) by both Voldemort and
Dumbledore, maybe we're back to the love/blood kin thing.

And *somewhere* in book 4 is a mention of why Dumbledore keeps sending Harry
back to the Dursleys--some sort of "do you know how well protected he is
there" or something, that I dimly remember mentions old magic too---I
couldn't find it on a quick scan, anyone know what I'm talking about?

--Amanda