[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry saved from AK by his mother

[Grace Saalsaa]

No: HPFGUIDX 42027


Grey Wolf wrote:
>Goblet of Fire, Chapter 33 "The Deatheaters" (Sp. Edition, liberal
>translation):

>"[Harry's] mother died to save him and, without knowing, she was a
>shield for him that I had not thought of... I couldn't touch him.[...]
>His mother left in him the traces of her sacrifice... this is ancient
>magic; I should've remembered it [...] My curse was desviated by the
>mad sacrifice of a woman and rebounded against me"

>Hope that helps


But!  Sure, Voldy tells the DE this - but he heard it from Harry when he was
Tom Riddle, down in the Chamber of Secrets.
And Harry heard it from Dumbledore after his encounter with the stone.  In
PS/SS,  where McGonagall sat waiting for Hagrid to bring Harry to Privet
Drive, she asks Dumbledore how, after killing all these people, Voldemort is
stopped by a little boy.  Dumbledore says something like: we can only guess.
And this amazing protection from a mother's love is his guess - which
strikes me as a weak and hokey answer. There's got to be a more plausible
answer.

Grace