- Dumbledore in PS/SS

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., rja.carnegie at e... wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., JamiDeise at a... wrote:
> > was anyone else as disappointed as I to learn in GoF that
> > the only reason baby Harry had defeated Voldemort the first
> > time was due to Lily's sacrificial death? I'd always thought
> > that it was Harry's kinetic wizarding powers that resulted in
> > Voldy's defeat.

Definitely not disappointed. But then I belong (very firmly indeed ) 
to the anti-UberHarry camp. I want Harry to be brave and clever and 
good, but not a being-set-apart kind of hero. I love that it's Lily's 
love that saved Harry, although I agree that there must have been 
something more. But the something more need not be something in 
Harry. It could be something in Lily, or a combination of 
circumstances. 

> 
> Not disappointed - because Dumbledore hinted at it at the end
> of PS, and Tom Riddle realised it too in CS and kicked himself
> (figuratively, I think).
> 
> When I get to see GOF presumably I'll understand better, but from
> an idea of Roger Zelazny's later Amber novels - that powerful
> wizards get lazy - my current idea is that Voldemort aimed a
> simple killing stroke at Harry, which a baby wizard couldn't
> possibly deflect 

I don't understant what you mean by "a simple killing stroke"? As far 
as I understand, Voldy did an Avada Kedavra on Harry, just as he did 
on Lily and James. Do you think there are different ways to do an AK? 


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