OOP-Dumbledore's "gleam"

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No: HPFGUIDX 66938

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "J. Harley Winfrey" 

<jhwinfrey at b...> wrote:

> 
> 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?


Me:

Okay, this is only a half-formulated theory:

What if the gleam in DD's eye was because LV now *believes* himself 
to be protected by Lily's blood when actually he is not.  Having 
Lily's blood enabled him to touch Harry, but being able to touch 
someone is very different from being protected from harm.

It would stand to reason that Lily's blood does not protect 
everyone - it just protects Harry.  She sacrificed herself to save 
Harry, no-one else.

DD says that LV distains these ancient forms of magic so it would be 
very likely that he would not take the time to study them that 
closely (a 'why waste my time' kind of attitude).  If he doesn't 
fully understand them then it is plausible that he is mistaken about 
now being protected and that this may make him over-confident and be 
part of his downfall.  Hence the 'gleam'.

What do you think?