Ancient/Old Magic

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 21645

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Jamie" <beyondthelamppost at y...> wrote:

> 
> But now *all* i want to know about how this ancient magic 
> works.....anyone have any ideas?
> 
Earlier in the same chapter, we learn that Lily saved Harry from 
Voldy's AK curse by invoking "old" magic. "I should have remembered 
it, I was foolish to overlook it." - of course, Tom Riddle forgot in 
CoS that Phoenix tears have a healing property - maybe Voldy has a 
memory as crummy as Neville Longbottom.

Old/Ancient magic seems to be incredibly powerful - not even Voldy 
can countermand it. This would not seem to be the magic which is 
taught at Hogwarts, but a more esoteric magic perhaps open only to 
the more spirtually ambitious (which may mean either striving toward 
a greater purity or a greater corruption).

  - CMC

Making megical history all over the show!

   - Finnegans Wake, p. 514