[HPforGrownups] Mrs. Figg, Fleur, and the real reason Harry will be glad he saved Wormtail

[Jacqueline Hendries]

No: HPFGUIDX 41676

Dave wrote:
> On the subject of Harry being glad about saving Wormtail, I was
> thinking, we're all assuming he's going to save Harry from Voldy or
> other DE, but I see a couple other possible scenarios that make more
> sense to me:
> 
> 1) Wormtail will finally get put on trial, and his gratitude towards
> Harry will cause him to give testimony that will finally
> acquit Sirius. (And a MoM offical will tell Harry that if
> Sirius and Lupin had killed him in the shack, they would positively
> have been thrown in Azkaban for life.)
> 
> or 2) Harry's act of mercy towards Wormtail somehow amplified the
> magical protection garnered from Lily (which I think has something to
> do with what Firenze says about "goodness" and "purity"), so that
> Voldy *still* can't kill him!

My theory on all of this tends more toward number two... if you recall,
at the end of PoA, Dumbledore says very specifically that Voldemort
would not want a SERVANT who is in Harry's debt. Then, in the
Rebirthing spell, this phrase is used: "Flesh of the SERVANT, willingly
taken..." etc. It seemed to me that it was worded very specifically,
probably for a reason; it's the kind of thing JK tosses off as nothing
but which eventually becomes really really important. :) But, we all
know that Voldemort *can* touch Harry now... so what gives? I don't
really know, but I think we're going to learn later (whether in OotP or
later) that something about the Rebirthing spell didn't work quite
right.

~ Jackie (Certified Harry Potter Conspiracy Theorist)

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jackie04 at brandeis.edu

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