Lily's Protection

[sofdog_2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 74239

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Paige Meeker" 
<PaigeMeeker at s...> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Something I've been thinking about for awhile; I believe that Lily 
> gave Harry protection against any sort of mortal danger - whether 
> it's a curse or a muggle trying to kill him.  (Brought up as a 
> question in the DD Death line of letters...)
> 
> I think JKR gave us a glimpse of this in OOP.  I know that Harry 
> sometimes uses magic without meaning to, like the snake in SS and 
> Aunt Marge in PA, but what if Lily's gift plays a part in things 
> when Harry has nothing left... I mean, Quirrel (true, he had LV as 
a 
> part of him) melted when he touched Harry to kill him.  Harry's 
very 
> skin was like a poisen.  Then, in OOP, Vernon is very upset with 
> Harry's supposed use of magic. 
> 
> (pg. 5, US version)  "Harry gasped; for a few seconds they 
> struggled, Harry pulling at his uncle's sausage-like fingers with 
> his left hand, his right maintaining a firm grip on his raised 
> want.  Then, as the pain in the top of Harry's head gave a 
> particularly nasty throb, Uncle Vernon yelped nad released Harry as 
> though he had received an electric shock -- some invisible force 
> seemed to have surged through his nephew, making him impossible to 
> hold."
> 
> Here, Vernon had his hands around Harry's throat and was probably 
> angry enough to be choking the life out of him.  There is no 
mention 
> that Harry did this magic himself; I think it's a part of Lily's 
> lingering gift to her son.
> 
> What do y'all think?
> 
> Pager

Sof:

I wondered about that passage too. You may be right. Or, it could be 
that Harry did that unintentionally as with his attempt to outrun 
Dudley's friends that resulted in him leaping to the top of a 
chimney. It would make sense that Lily's protection is directly 
opposed to the power that Lily died trying to protect Harry from, but 
then we really don't know everything about it. Even now, they haven't 
told Harry the complete story surrounding his parents' death. Were 
they only on the run because of their resistance to Voldemort, or 
were they specifically in hiding to protect Harry? No one has said so 
far.