[HPforGrownups] Re: TBAY: Stoned Harry

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 38667

Heidi Rugg wrote:
> 
> I've been reading the Stoned!Harry theory with great interest, but am left pondering a few questions...
> 
> (Stepping gingerly into the kayak, cringing that I may be rocking it...)
> 
> 1.  If Harry is truly immortal, why would Dumbledore have to have set
> protective "old magic" over him so that when he is in the care of his
? relatives, he cannot be harmed?
> 
> 2.  Why was Dumbledore concerned about Harry dying ("almost lost you")
> at the end of PS/SS with Quirrel/Voldemort?

Immortality (at least for some values of "immortal") doesn't
necessarily mean a person can't be killed.  Witness Tolkien's
elves, who don't die of old age or disease but are just as
vulnerable as humans are to sword, fire, drowning, falling off
cliffs, etc.


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>