[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry and the Phoenix/ McGonagall

[Richelle Votaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 43611

Grey Wolf writes:

> I don't believe in the heir theory myself, and you've just touched one
> of the words that make my favourite theory run: "undercover". According
> to my (exteneded) version of MAGIC DISHWASHER, the Potters were working
> in a secret project for Dumbledore, as part of the ongoing plans of
> Dumbledore to beat Voldemort.
<snip>
> prevent James form discovering something, he decied to destroy him and
> the notes of the experiment (including Harry). Of course, what LV
> didn't understand was that Lily had made discoveries as well, and that
> one of the spells she finds would protect Harry form thew AK.

Okay, this has aided me in the development of yet another new train of
thought.  New to me, I mean, I'm sure someone's thought of it before.  Now,
we know that Dumbledore is supposed to have been partners with Nicholas
Flamel.  We also know (or at least according to Hagrid) that the Potters
were close to Dumbledore.  Dumbledore doesn't seem the type to get "close"
to many people.  So let's continue along this line, suppose the Potters were
indeed working with Dumbledore on a secret project.  Could this perhaps be
related to the Sorcerer's/Philospher's Stone or Elixir of Life?  I refuse to
believe for a second that JKR will not return to the stone or Elixir.
Everything else significant seems to reoccur at some point, and I believe
one or the other will.  We also know that it is possible to store up Elixir,
according to Dumbledore, so it may be around too.

Anyway, back to my original train of thought.  Suppose the Potters were
working on an experiment with the Elixir of Life?  Even making new formulas
using the Elixir to see what can be accomplished.  And perhaps
"experiementing" on Harry in the process.  Nothing to harm him, and it just
might help.  What if (come on, let your imagination run wild) Harry was
bottle fed Elixir or something adapted from it?  Something that no one
really knew whether it would indeed make a "super wizard" or have no effect
at all.

Now, let's go back for some actual facts.  Quirrell could not touch Harry
because Voldemort was residing in his body.  He was, though, trying to get
to his wand to kill him that way.  It is implied that something could have
been done that way, even though he couldn't physically touch Harry.  Next,
let's take a look at Harry's scar.  If the "ancient magic" that Lily used to
protect Harry made him impossible to touch by Voldemort *at all* why was
there a scar left?

I think it's possible that there are two forces at work here.  One was the
protection left on Harry by his mother's sacrifice.  Voldemort could not
*physically* touch him.  Second, the result of some experiment, possibly
involving the elixir or an adapted elixir, which kept him alive when he was
cursed by Voldemort.  A scar was left, true.  Voldemort can hurt Harry now,
as evidenced by administering the Cruciatus curse not once, but twice.
However, can Harry *really* die?

Maybe, just maybe, he can't.  But no one knows that, not even Dumbledore.
Dumbledore may suspect it, because he knew about the experimentation, but he
doesn't *know.*  If not that he can't die at all, perhaps a sort of "nine
lives."  Or three or four or something.

Sure, none of this can be proven.  But, so far at least, I don't think any
of it can be disproven either.

Richelle