How did Harry survive Voldemort's attack as a baby?

[annetteh11 at home.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 11972

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Keith Fraser" <keith.fraser at s...> wrote:
> What was it that allowed Harry to survive the supposedly 
unstoppable 
> Killing Curse and reflect it back onto the user? In Book 4 
Voldemort 
> seems to believe that Lily's dying for him both stopped and 
deflected 
> the curse. However, as I have seen pointed out in the past, people 
> have probably taken an Avada Kedavra for others before, so there 
may 
> have been something else.
> 
> Also, in Book 2 Harry says something like: "Nobody knows why you 
lost 
> your powers when you attacked me. But I know why you couldn't kill 
> me. Because my mother died to save me." to Young Voldemort (Tom 
> Riddle). I don't know how well-founded Harry's statement was, but 
it 
> suggests the halting and reflection of the curse were separate 
things.
> 
> Fanfic authors (including myself) have put forward various ideas 
> about Harry being some kind of super-wizard. The books haven't yet 
> shown much if any evidence of this (his resistance to the Imperius 
> Curse is a possible clue), and it's impossible to know if that will 
> turn out to be the case, but I support this idea. For one thing, it 
> means Harry might have a chance of defeating Voldemort once his 
> dormant powers emerge, which means the books can end the way 
everyone 
> wants them to - with Kentucky Fried Voldemort.


Has anyone discussed the conflict of Lilly Potter being a witch or a 
muggle.  The first three books give the definate impression that she 
was a witch from an early age, even Aunt Marge made a reference to 
this fact prior to Harry blowing her up.  But at the end of book 4, 
when Harry was tied to Tom Riddle's head stone, Voldemort said how 
alike he and Harry were; Both born with muggle mothers....Another 
thing I noticed is that the Death Eaters are all violently anti mud 
blood, but why then would they support Voldemort if he had a muggle 
mother?