Flesh, Skin, Bone? (was Gleam in Dumbledore's eyes)

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 30538

twoplus3 wrote:

> I know this question has been discussed at length, but there is 
> something I picked up on last night while re-reading SS (again).  In 
> GOF, Harry thinks he sees a gleam of triumph in Dumbledore's eyes 
> after he learns that Voldemort took his blood.  In SS, Dumbledore 
> tells Harry that his mother's protection was "in his very skin."  
> Could this mean that Dumbledore knows that the protection was not in 
> his blood, as V. thought, but in Harry's skin instead?
> 

There ought to be some kind of award for people who find a glimmer of 
novelty in topics that we thought had been done to death.  
Congratulations, twoplus3!  You're the first winner of the annual 
Blood-from-a-Stone Prize!

OK, to your point.  If it's Harry's skin that's effective, not his 
blood, then why can Voldemort touch him now?  He hasn't done anything 
with Harry's skin.

Amy Z

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