avada kedavra

[karmakaze_kk]

No: HPFGUIDX 57764

"Grace" <SaalsG at c...> wrote:
[snip]
> At that point I fell asleep and my mind wandered
> back to GoF, the graveyard scene.  Harry is standing
> there before LV who is about to finish his off 
> with avada kedavra.  
> 
> LV yells "avada kedavra" and the same time Harry 
> yells "Expelliarmus!" 
> 
> BUT!  That curse didn't work on Harry the last 
> time he tried it, what makes him think it's going
> to work this time?  Getting his body back and a
> little protection from Harry's blood doesn't change
> the fact that the AK curse bounces off Harry.
> 
> Grace

I'm not sure that we've established that the protection on Harry
specifically protects specifically against the AK curse.  It's defined
rather nebulously, and even Dumbledore admits to not knowing quite how
it works. In TPS the protection burns someone who means Harry ill (and
is really really evil) just because.  In that case, it's not even
deflecting any magic, just touch.  It also warns him, via the scar, of
evil attention focused on him.

It seems that it's more of a general deflection of ill intent from
Volemort, rather than a specific warding against AK in general.  In
fact, I'd theorize that even before Voldemort's spell in book four, AK
cast by someone else would probably work on Harry (not that anyone
else would do such a thing).  So, once the spell is cast, we see that
Voldemort can now touch Harry without pain, so it seems to be
reasonable that he can also attack without repercussion.

-Kk