[HPforGrownups] RE: Harry nice kid / Harry & Cho

[Katze]

No: HPFGUIDX 33077

catlady_de_los_angeles wrote:


> I don't think *Dumbledore* put an emotional-protection spell on baby
> Harry: I think *LILY* did. This is one of the things I keep saying so
> that everyone gets bored with me: Lily stayed there for Voldemort to
> kill her instead of Apparating away (leaving Harry behind) or ducking
> (with magical assistance) out of the way of the Avada Kevadra. One
> reason was that she was shielding baby Harry with her body, but I
> think another reason was that she was using those last moments and
> all her magic power to put a magic image of herself in baby Harry's
> mind. Which he now perceives as kind of an 'imaginary mum' like an
> 'imaginary friend'. But it's more than imaginary: it has real
> Lilyness in it, some of her magic power, some of her love for Harry,
> some of her ethics, etc. So he spent childhood years in that cupboard
> with shadow-Lily to hug him and tell him he a good kid, that he
> doesn't deserve the way the Dursleys treat him, tell him about how
> decent people would behave... And when he resists the Imperius Curse
> in fake-Moody's class, it says "a voice in his head" told him not to
> obey the command: I think that voice was shadow-Lily!

I wouldn't get bored with this. This is the first time I've seen a
theory like this stated, and I like it just fine. I had also wondered
who was inside Harry's head and thought it might be Lily. We *know* that
she used "old magic" to protect Harry, by way of Voldemort's rant in the
Death Eater chapter. If Voldemort was able to transfer some of his
powers to Harry, albeit accidentally, why couldn't Lily? We don't have
any idea of what kind of witch Lily was before her death. The only clues
we have cause us to believe that she was very good in charms and spells.
Perhaps she has some unique power that she was able to transfer to
Harry, like a shadow of herself. 

I'm not sure why Harry ended up good, but there are times where kids who
grow up in bad situations end up good anyway. I think it's very
fortunate that he went to Hogwarts as young as he did, because I think
he would've started to have greater developmental problems if he hadn't
gone. He certainly isn't perfect, as we know that he has a hard time
controlling his anger, and I think this will grow in books as the
pressure on him begins to mount.

JMO
-Katze