[HPforGrownups] Blood of an enemy

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 10089

Trina wrote:

> Harry was very well tied up at the time Wormtail took his
> blood, and although he was "struggling helplessly" he couldn't put up
> much of a fight so that nothing was too forcibly taken.  I wonder if
> it was this little detail that (I know, "so we're back to *that*
> again?" <sigh>) caused that curious gleam of triumph in Dumledore's
> eye.

No, it can't be that the blood wasn't taken in the right way, or the spell
wouldn't have worked and Voldemort wouldn't be back. I think taking the
blood from Harry while Harry was tied up and helpless still qualifies as
taking by force. And I think it had to be taken by someone that Harry knew
for an enemy, thus knowing himself their enemy (if you know what I mean),
so a clandestine bloodletting by Crouch/Moody wouldn't do--Harry was not
his enemy.

Did that make sense?

--Amanda