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

[Jason Bailey]

No: HPFGUIDX 30544

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

Perhaps he was able to touch Harry because he meant him no harm at
that particular moment. Remember, Quirrell was trying to kill him.
It's all rather confusing...but I think you have to be attempting to
kill Harry, not just hurt him. Otherwise Wormtail couldn't have cut
him....