TBAY: Stoned Harry/Mother's Love

[cindysphynx]

No: HPFGUIDX 38546

Katze wrote:

> I'm also a believer that there's more to Harry surviving the AK 
curse
> than the excuse that Lily saved him with her love. Why would it 
only
> work for her, and never anyone else? It's ancient magic, that 
apparently
> one of the most ruthless wizards has forgotten. Wouldn't you think 
that
> with all of V's killing people would do anything to protect their 
love
> ones - like learning ancient magic? I just think that if this were
> really the case, many more people would've survived the AK curse.

Well, you know.  You know.

You know, it is possible that there was something special about this 
particular ancient magic that Lily used.  Like, um, we know 
Voldemort was able to find Lily by breaking the Fidelius Curse.  Is 
it possible, just maybe, that the ancient magic was something 
deliberately embedded in the Fidelius Curse that the Potters 
performed?  Maybe even something the secretkeeper (Peter) didn't 
know about?  Something that Voldemort forgot about not because he is 
thick but because he wasn't expecting the Potters to use this 
particular variant of the Fidelius Curse?

Oooh, I get all tingly at the idea of there being Fidelius Curse 
variants.  Don't even get me *started.*

Also, it makes sense that the Potters and Dumbledore would work up 
some contingency plan.  After all, the secretkeeper (Sirius) was 
going into hiding, so they knew there was some risk he would be 
discovered and would divulge their location.  So they add this extra 
little wrinkle (the ancient Love Magic) when they perform the charm.

That would go a long way toward explaining why Harry seems to be the 
only one to benefit from his mother's love.  It isn't that Harry is 
the only one with a mother who loves him.  It would be that Harry is 
the only one saved by his mother after a failed Fidelius Curse.

Hey, it's a theory.  ;-)

> I love this theory that Harry's the living stone. He also wouldn't
> actually have to die an early death defeating V either - just give 
up
> his immortality, like Flamel did by destroying the stone. 

Oh.  

Oh my.  

Oh, I don't *like* having Harry just surrender his immortality.  I 
mean, where's the Bang there?  He just kind of nods when he realizes 
the sacrifice he must make, maybe with his eyes tearing up a bit?  
Ron and Hermione just kind of shrug back at him, because, hey, he 
gets to live out the rest of his life just like they do, so where's 
the tragedy in his forfeiture of immortality?  It also allows Hagrid 
(who will die in OoP) and Lupin (who will die in Book 7) to steal 
Harry's thunder and seriously upstage him.

Also, and lean in close for this bit, but I didn't care much when 
Flammel forfeited immortality.  It was kind of dull.  I mean, he 
wasn't really entitled to immortality, and I didn't get the sense 
that Flammel was doing anything special with it, after all.  I mean, 
I hardly miss the guy.  So when Harry forfeits immortality, he can't 
be around to live a normal wizarding lifespan.  He has to Meet His 
Maker *right then.*

Ah, come on.  Wouldn't it be better (with "better" being defined as 
infinitely more Big) to have Harry make the Ultimate Sacrifice and 
take Voldemort out with him?

Cindy (who wants Harry to tangle with Voldemort on a rickety catwalk 
high over a river of molten lava or something else really, really 
visual)