Power of Blood

[bluesqueak]

No: HPFGUIDX 40233

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "cornflower_o_shea" <tenpinkpiggies at h...> 
wrote:
> --ETHANOL Wrote: And here is another point: the blood Peter has 
> taken from Harry. Now, the *amount* of blood wasn't dangerous and 
> isn't likely to causelasting trouble. But this is a world of magic. 
> What does the blood effect,except causing a glimpse of triumph in 
> Dumbledore?<Snip>

Cornflower replies:
> Well, we do know, in the case of unicorns, that blood taken by 
> force curses the stealer, while "saving" them (ooh, don't you love 
> irony!). So it would be reasonable to assume that Harry goodness 
> and innocence will have an effect that is equatable (literally? or 
> just by way of foreshadowing?) to that of unicorn blood.
> 

Cross book reference with the Narnia books has just occurred to me 
here: 

SPOILER WARNING: THIS POST REVEALS PLOT POINTS FROM 'THE MAGICIANS 
NEPHEW'.

Cedric Diggory is a loose rearranging of the name of Digory Kirke; 
the schoolboy hero of C.S. Lewis's 'The Magician's Nephew'. 

One of the things Digory has to do is collect a magical apple from a 
tree guarded by a Phoenix and bring it back to safeguard Narnia. 
While he is taking the apple (with permission) he is tempted by 
Narnia's Voldemort Equivalent, who tells him that the apple will save 
his dying mother's life if he takes it back to her instead of to 
Narnia.

Instead, he does as he's been asked and is then told by Aslan that 
the stolen apple would have given his mother life, yes. But a cursed 
life; someday they would have looked back and said it would have been 
better after all if she had died in her illness.

So, Voldemort has killed Cedric Diggory (Digory Kirke) and stolen 
Harry's blood (the apple), using it to give himself life - but will 
it also be a cursed life?

END SPOILER

I think there is also a cross-reference with Cedric Diggory and 
unicorns - as well as his wand having a unicorn-hair core, he would 
also fit the description of 'pure, defenceless and magical' - which 
is a good description of a unicorn. So Voldemort has, so to speak, 
again killed a unicorn as part of a spell to preserve his life.

Pip (who apparently suits a Maple wand with phoenix feather core, 
much to her relief. Unicorns aren't really 'me'.)
Squeak