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

[Christina Gross]

No: HPFGUIDX 2316

On 26.09.2000 at 15:46:04 Amanda Lewanski wrote:

><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.

Possible, or maybe Voldemort just couldn't admit to himself that he
was outsmarted by a young muggle-born witch. 

Christina

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