Voldemort's Strategy (was Loss of/Harry's Special Powers)

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., ebonyink at h... wrote:
> Penny wrote:
> 
> > > I definitely agree with Lori and others that there must be 
> more to infant Harry's defeat of Lord V than just Lily's sacrifice 
& 
> layer of protection.  He and his Death Eaters waged a long & 
> seemingly costly war against both the wizarding & muggle 
> populations.  It hardly seems likely to me that  not one
> > > single person other than Lily Potter tried to save or died to 
> save another human being during that war.  I think there's 
> definitely something special about Harry.  I don't think we'll know 
> it all though until after Book 7.
> > > 
> 
> And Kimberly wrote:
> > I've been thinking long and hard about this since it was pointed 
> out > to me that while Lily's sacrifice may have protected Harry 
> from death, > it wasn't what caused Voldemort to loose his 
> power.
> 
> 
> You're right.  The one problem is that we don't know *what* Lily's 
> powers were.  We do know now that Lily needn't to have died.  
> (I've read theories and fanfics ranging from the plausible (she 
> wasn't a direct descendant of Gryffindor) to the ridiculous 
> (Muggle-born Lily was a secret Death Eater!).
> 
> I thnk that the combination of her sacrifice *along with* 
> something innate in baby Harry caused his protection and V's 
> downfall.  What I'm wondering is that if all of our "There's 
> Something About Harry" inklings prove correct--if he could have 
> protected his parents and completely Voldemort if he was fully 
> matured.
> 

I'm not sure that Voldemort's loss of power needs to be attributed to 
some special power Harry has (although I do think that Harry *is* 
"powerfully magic"). We know that Lily's sacrifice was what saved 
Harry's life. So what happened was that some mysterious magic that 
her sacrifice generated deflected the curse Voldemort directed at 
Harry. The simplest theory then would be that the curse rebounded on 
(to?) Voldemort. He would have died of his own curse if it wasn't for 
his immortality spells. Instead he was reduced to living death.


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