(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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