OOP: The Gleam, The Gleam

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No: HPFGUIDX 64196


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pickle_jimmy" <kemp at a...> 
wrote:
> 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

   That's a good possibility, but I've thought of another one, as 
well.  Dumbledore's "look of triumph", of course, occurs right after 
Harry tells him about Voldemort taking Harry's blood, and about 
Voldemort touching Harry and not being hurt by it.  So, naturally, 
most of us have assumed that the look was related to the fact that 
Voldemort took Harry's blood.  What if it wasn't? 

   Maybe Dumbldore's look of triumph was related to another important 
detail about that scene with Voldemort.  Harry was tied up and 
wandless while it happened, and Voldemort could have killed him on 
the spot, but didn't.  

   Now, if Voldemort knew that he or Harry had to die, and that Harry 
was the only one who could kill him, wouldn't he have killed Harry 
then and there, instead letting him loose so they could duel?  After 
all, Voldemort didn't seem to feel threatened by Harry during the 
duel, he was playing with him.  Which makes me think that Volemort 
thinks of Harry as an annoyance, and not a true threat.  It's likely 
that Voldemort thought the prophecy had been fulfilled when he lost 
his power during his first attempt to kill Harry.

   I think it was the realization that Voldemort still didn't know 
the rest of the prophecy that caused Dumbledore's look of triumph.  
Maybe it's important for Voldemort to continue to regard Harry as a 
nuisance instead of a real threat.  That would also explain the whole 
bit about the prophecy needing to be hid from Voldemort in book 5 
(which doesn't quite make sense to me, otherwise).

Maria