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

[Cindy C.]

No: HPFGUIDX 30543

> 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?
> > 
> 
Amy Z wrote:

> 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.
> 

I agree that it is amazing that twoplus3 found a new theory on this 
issue, and I applaud the awarding of the Blood-from-a-Stone Prize.  I 
don't think we should give up easily on this, though.  Perhaps we 
just have to squeeze the Stone harder.

Um, maybe Lily's protection *is* in Harry's skin, as Dumbledore 
notes.  Voldemort touched Harry's skin, true.  But that is a far cry 
from defeating all of Lily's protection.  After all, the important 
part of the protection is being able to deflect Avada Kedavra.  So, 
um, maybe the gleam in Dumbledore's eye is that he knows that 
Voldemort thinks he has defeated both forms of protection, but 
Voldemort only defeated one.  Voldemort's next curse against Harry 
will rebound as well, and he'll be just as surprised as he was the 
first time around.

Cindy