Harry's abilities

[summers.65 at osu.edu]

No: HPFGUIDX 9392


kimberley sez:

But another question that would have to be answered along with this
is:
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 maintain (and have always done so) that the above cannot possibly be true.

It cannot have been Lily's sacrifice that saved Harry from Voldemort, at
least not by itself.

Voldemort apparently killed many people.  Men, women, children, various
non-human magical creatures.  And in all those murders, no one ever died
trying to save someone else before Lily?  I don't buy it.  No one else
seems to have survived V's rage because Person X died to save them.

There must have been something else about Harry that saved his life.  His
mother's death couldn't have protected him completely, at least I don't
think it could have.  But then I have my own theories (which I suspect
prompted this discussion :-) that I won't go into here.

Lori


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Lori   "Hi-Keeba"  Summers

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