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

[meltowne]

No: HPFGUIDX 67712

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tom Wall" <thomasmwall at y...> 
wrote:
> "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...
> 
The key is Voldemort gave him the powers which fitted him to escape 
four times.  It was his mother that enabled him to escape the first 
time - the powers transferred from Voldemort helped him the next 4 
times... The first time, it was Lily who defied him, not Harry.

Melinda