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

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 2265

AAAAAGGH! I'm so sorry! Apologies to the list, I got all caught up in looking
for something in the book and not finding it and I completely forgot the spoiler
warning! Please nobody come get me! Sorry, sorry.

--Amanda











Amanda Lewanski wrote:

> 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
>
>
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