[HPforGrownups] Chapter 32 Summary - Flesh, Bone, and Blood

[Sister Mary Lunatic]

No: HPFGUIDX 13123

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Bone of the father, unknowingly given. You will renew your son.
Flesh of the servant, willingly given. You will revive your master.
Blood of the enemy, forcibly taken.  You will resurrect your foe.

Wormtail cuts his right hand off and draws Harry's blood.
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WHY did Wormtail cut off his hand first?  Seems to me there might be danger
of him passing out from pain or loss of blood before he had a chance to take
Harry's blood.  I know that I've come close to passing out just from
whacking my hand on the doorknob (middle of the night, in the dark).  He was
sobbing the whole time he was cutting Harry's arm and collecting the blood,
AND he had to do it one-handed.  I guess he may have HAD to do his hand
first, in order for the spell to work correctly, but seems that Voldemort
was taking a chance that it might go wrong.  Of course, Voldie isn't the
smartest Evil Overlord we've ever met, is he?  He never seems to have a
back-up plan.

SML
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"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to
accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it.
The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that
passing time to the best possible use."
-- Earl Nightingale
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