Who is Harry Potter? (long)

[heidi.h.tandy.c92 at alumni.upenn.edu]

No: HPFGUIDX 9360

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Kimberly " <moongirlk at y...> wrote:
> Why, if Harry isn't inherently special, or different, or whatever, 
was 
> Voldemort not only unable to kill him, but unable to survive trying 
> without loosing everything?
>  I honestly think it was nothing more than Lily's choice to die 
> protecting Harry that saved him.  I don't think there was some 
special 
> secret charm performed, some special power of Harry's, or any other 
> big mystery.  I think a sacrificial love like that is, like Amy 
quoted 
> Riddle as saying, a powerful countercurse, and much, much more, and 
I 
> think that alone at least *should* have been enough to destroy 
> Voldemort the way it did.  At least that's my theory.  

I just feel that there has to be something more to it. As Lori wrote 
in Paradigm of Uncertainty (her wonderful fanfic, for those who are 
new to this list, which is avaialble at 
http://www.fanfiction.net/index.fic?action=directory-
authorProfile&userid=3572) there were other witches & wizards who 
sacrificed themselves for their family - and sometimes, there must've 
been witches & wizards who even sacrificed themselves for strangers - 
but the people they were protecting died anyway. I don't know, maybe 
it's as simple as the phase of the moon & placement of the stars (the 
centuars would probably agree to that) but JKR's made so much of 
Lily's eyes (which is a very "secret garden" thing to do) and harry's 
eyes' similarity - it might be something as simple as that - or it 
might be a lot more complicated, and more ingrained with *who* Harry 
is (which I guess brings us back up to the original question).