OOP-Dumbledore's "gleam"

[J. Harley Winfrey]

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To expand on Brooke's musings on Harry's protections:

>From GoF: "'He said my blood would make him stronger than if he'd used someone else's,' Harry told Dumbledore.  'He said the protection my--my mother left in me--he'd have it too.  And he was right--he could touch me without hurting himself, he touched my face.'
For a fleeting instant, Harry thought he saw a gleam of something like triumph in Dumbledore's eyes."

and from OoP: "'While you can still call home the place where your mother's blood dwells, there you cannot be touched or harmed by Voldemort.  He shed her blood, but it lives on in you and her sister.  Her blood became your refuge."

Ok, this may be getting into MAGIC DISHWASHER territory, but could it be that Dumbledore's gleam was because he believed that Voldemort's taking of Harry's blood would nullify the prophecy?  (either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives)
Leaving the issues with Neville out of it for the moment, if according to the prophecy, Harry must be killed by Voldemort and according to Dumbledore, Harry cannot be harmed by Voldemort--then that leaves only the possibility that Voldemort must be killed by Harry.  But if Voldemort now has the same protection from Lily's blood as Harry, then doesn't that make the prophecy a paradox?

Of course, there's still lots of room for JKR-style wriggling--the prophecy doesn't really say that they have to kill each other, but that either must die at the HAND of the other.  So there could be more dismemberment in store! <gollum>

--Harley

(This is my first post in quite a while, so by way of reintroduction, let me say I am a R/H shipper, a Redeemed!Draco-ite, and I'm convinced that Harry will have to sacrifice himself in book VII.  I give book V thumbs up while my wife was greatly disappointed in it.  She thought the lack of a cohesive plot and predicatability made it the worst of the canon, while I felt the fun moments and details made up for its shortcomings.)


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