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

[bethcurrie2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 67105

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tom Wall" <thomasmwall at y...> 
wrote:
> 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?
> 

I don't think this is a flint.  DD refers to the "future" - *after* 
LV gave Harry the scar.  I.e. the first time Harry escaped him does 
not count as one of the times.  Since LV marked Harry with the scar, 
Harry has escaped him four times.

Beth