(OoP) FLINT: How many times has Harry defied Voldemort?

Tom Wall thomasmwall at yahoo.com
Thu Jul 3 16:51:44 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 67101

Well, after a cursory search through all of the messages containing 
the word 'FLINT' after 06/21, I'm fairly certain that I've found my 
first:

"He saw himself in you before he had ever seen you, and in marking 
you with that scar, he did not kill you, as he intended, but gave 
you powers, and a future, which have fitted you to escape him not 
once, but **four times** so far - something that neither your 
parents, nor Neville's parents, ever achieved." - Dumbledore 
[emphasis is mine] (OoP, Ch.37, p842, US edition)

Correct me if I'm wrong here, but hasn't Harry actually escaped from 
Voldemort *five* times?

1) The night Voldemort visited Godric's Hollow and his Avada Kedavra 
curse bounced off of Harry.

2) In PS/SS when facing Quirrell-mort.

3) In CoS, when Harry stabbed the diary and got rid of Memory!Riddle 
(who refers to himself as 'Lord Voldemort,' and who says that Lord 
Voldemort is his 'past, present, and future.')

4) In GoF, when, via Priori Incantantem, Harry survives Voldemort's 
Avada Kedavra for the *second* time and escapes from the graveyard.

5) In OoP, when Voldemort tried, for the *third* time, to use Avada 
Kedavra on Harry. In this case, instead of Priori Incantantem, it 
was Dumbledore that distracted Voldemort (via the animated statue of 
the wizard from the Fountain of Magical Brethren.) But Harry still 
escaped, defying him yet again.

On that note, Voldemort also says, in Ch.36 (p812, US edition): "and 
my Death Eaters have let Harry Potter thwart me again." 
This "thwart" suggests to me that, at least, Voldemort considers 
this defiance, which means that in OoP, Harry has defied Voldemort 
for the *fifth* time in his young life.

So, ever-so-critical-and-discerning members: to FLINT, or not to 
FLINT? ;-)

-Tom





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