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

[eccleston at clara.co.uk]

No: HPFGUIDX 10357

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Steve Vander Ark" <vderark at b...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "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
> 
> Just in case you're interested, there's a page about that entire 
> incident, including the "wand order" business, the missing 24 
hours, 
> and a timeline of events, all in the Harry Potter Lexicon. Follow 
> this path:
> 
> http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon
> 
> Click on Time Line, then on the Time Lines menu look for:
> "time line of the attack by Voldemort on Harry's mystery (and that 
> pesky wand order business)"
> 
> Steve Vander Ark
> The Harry Potter Lexicon
> http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon


I'm a bit of a novice at this, and I haven't had time to look at all 
the threads in his question, but my simplistic reading was that Lilly 
was prepared to sacrifice her self for Harry and this was an "old 
magic" that Voldermort could not overcome. In terms, a mothers 
selfless love saved Harry