The Gleam & the Hiss

[talondg]

No: HPFGUIDX 36300


> Cindy suggested:
> 
> Apparently, Crouch/Moody attaches some significance to the use of 
> Harry's blood.  I think it's reasonable to conclude that Moody does 
> not believe the use of Harry's blood is Voldemort's fatal error. 

And the reason why is simple: Voldy wanted Harry's blood over all 
else. Crouch Jr. was obsessed with being Voldy's "most faithful 
servant" and would have done anything to get whatever his master 
desired.

You don't question Voldy; you do what he says. If Voldy sez Harry's 
blood is signifigant, then it is. Case closed as far as Crouch Jr is 
concerned.

> That means Crouch/Moody (and by extension, Voldemort) believes that 
> using Harry's blood is not a fatal error for the Dark Side.  Why 
> would Crouch/Moody and Voldemort, both smart, talented, experienced 
> Dark Wizards come to the exact opposite conclusion as Dumbledore?

I think the amswer to this question is answered by another:

"Why didn't the reflected Avra Kedavra curse KILL Voldy?"

AK KILLS without defense - at least, that what it is supposed to do 
at least. If it was purely reflected, then it should have struck 
Voldy dead; go to jail, do not collect $200

But that didn't happen - something else did. Amongst other things, it 
seems to have somehow tied Harry and Voldy together somehow. Harry's 
scar hurts when Voldy is around or doing something nasty. 
Harry's "natural wand attenuation" seems identical to Voldy's, to the 
point where Voldy's "brother wand" chooses Harry. Harry is a 
Paseltoungue. The Sorting Hat nearly puts him in Slytherin. And so on 
and so forth.

If it wasn't for the fact that we already know otherwise, I'd be 
strongly tempeted to claim that Harry was Voldy's SON, as the Luke 
Skywalker/Darth Vader element is so strong.

I'm pretty sure that Voldy is unaware of the depth and nature of this 
tying together (being denied the opportunity to observe Harry much) 
whereas Dumbledore most certainly is. Dumbledore has information that 
Voldy does not.

Voldy states in GoF that he wants Harry's blood for two reasons. The 
first is to conclusively demonstrate that his previous defeat was a 
fluke, and that Harry has no special ablility over him. The second is 
that he figures that Harry's protection (from his mother's sacrifice) 
is carried in Harry's blood. Voldy collects defenses. It's possible 
that one of them saved him from his own curse (at least, he thinks 
so, and we don't have enough info to be able to know otherwise) and 
so he's keen to lay hands on more of them - each defense is another 
layer of armour, and this one in particular helps him be able to hurt 
Harry as a nice side-effect.

But it seems that perhaps that is NOT the case, and the use of 
Harry's blood perhaps does NOT have the effect that he thinks it does 
(and Dumbledore knows the truth)

The most obvious side effect is that if Voldy can touch Harry, then 
Harry can touch Voldy too - and Harry is at large and is a student of 
Voldy's most powerful enemy. If this isn't setting up a climatic 
Harry vs Voldy duel, I don't know what does.

Reaching a bit more, if magical defenses ARE carried in the blood... 
well, all Voldy's blood (and thus his defenses) were blasted away 
when his curse reflected on him and he became spirit-like. His blood 
is now Harry's, and Harry is very much mortal. It could very well be 
that Voldy is now completely mortal too - powerful to be sure, but 
maybe now he can actually be struck down and stay there.

The key to all this is going to be in the nature of how Harry and 
Voldy are tightly tied together. We haven't been told enough yet to 
really speculate on how that is going to turn out, but I'd lay wages 
that it's the key point.

DG