[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry's abilities/Hagrid as Reliable Source

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 10645

Becky Penar wrote:

> I agree Penny, if this were just about Lily saving Harry, don't you
> think that someone like Lucius or Draco Malfoy, or someone else who
> doesn't like Harry, would have brought it up by now that it's really
> not Harry that is special, but all of this attention is because of
> his mother?? Did that make sense?

Yes. And I thought of a distinction that might have been made before, but
I don't recall it if so---the Avada Kedavra curse didn't simply not work.
It *rebounded.* That's two different things. We've seen that curses,
hexes, spells, whatever, can be eluded physically (aka, graveyard scene),
and we've seen that they sometimes don't work, or not completely ("it
still had a willow-patterned shell..."). But except for this one instance,
they don't rebound onto the caster. Is this significant?

--Amanda