OOP: The Gleam, The Gleam

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No: HPFGUIDX 64057

The Gleam from GoF:

"He said my blood would make him stronger than if he'd used someone 
else's," Harry told Dumbledore.  "He said the protection my - my 
mother left in me - he'd have it too.  And he was right - he could 
touch me without hurting himself, he touched my face." For a fleeting 
instant, Harry thought he saw a gleam of something like triumph in 
Dumbledore's eyes.  


The Explaination from OOP:

"But I knew, too, where Voldemort was weak. And so I made my 
decision. You would be protected by an ancient magic of which he 
knows, which he despises, and which he has always, therefore, 
underestimated - to his cost. I am speaking, of course, of the fact 
that your mother died to save you. She gave you a lingering 
protection he never expected, a protection that flows in your veins 
to this day. I put my trust, therefore, in your mother's blood. I 
delivered you to her sister, her only remaining relative."

"She doesn't love me," said Harry at once. "She doesn't give a damn"

"But she took you," Dumbledore cut across him. "She may have taken 
you grudgingly, furiously, unwillingly, bitterly, yet still she took 
you, and in doing so, she sealed the charm I placed upon you. Your 
mother's sacrifice made the bond of blood the strongest shield I 
could give you."

"While you can still call home the place where your mother's blood 
dwells, there you cannot be touched or harmed by Voldemort. He shed 
her blood, but it lives on in you and her sister. Her blood became 
your refuge. You need return there only once a year, but as long as 
you can still call it home, whilst you are there he cannot hurt you. 
Your aunt knows this. I explained what I had done in the letter I 
left, with you, on her doorstep. She knows that allowing you 
houseroom may well have kept you alive for the past fifteen years."

Now Me:
I have seen this come up a few times, but I don't understand why 
there is still a question regarding Dumbledore's gleam.

He put a charm on Harry to protect him that has to do with Blood - 
His Mother's Blood, Petunia's Blood, His Blood. It is this "blood 
shield" that protects him. It is magic that Voldemort underestimates, 
despises, and (like the rest of us - except Dumbledore) doesn't fully 
understand.

Harry is protected as long as where he calls "home" is a place in 
which resides a person that has "Evans" blood running through their 
veins. Voldemort just added himself to the (very short) list of 
people that can offer Harry this protection.

It may turn out that Voldemort now has blood bond preventing him from 
killing the very person he is after. No wonder DD's eye gleamed.

Pickle Jimmy