[HPforGrownups] Re: avada kedavra

[Ladi lyndi]

No: HPFGUIDX 57899


--- Kelly wrote:
> There
> is also room for them to wonder at how powerful
> Voldemort is because he has
> failed to kill Harry at least three times. 

Lynn:

What you said here has brought up something I've
been wondering about.  Just how will what
happened in GoF affect some of the DE's.  First,
they appear stunned that Harry was able to throw
off the Imperius Curse.  They stopped laughing. 
Then, they see that Harry wasn't killed but was
able to battle Voldemort.  What we don't know is
how much they were able to see of what was
happening inside the golden cage.  Did they see
that Harry's wand was able to force Voldemort's
wand into what really amounts to submission by
having it regurgitate the previous spells cast. 
Then, Harry is able to outrun the DE's, avoid
their curses, perhaps stopped one or more of them
himself and still had the presence of mind to
escape when it looked like escape was hopeless.

While it might not affect some, will it affect
those who went with Voldemort because they
believed he was the winning team?  Using Wormtail
as an example, will his allegiances change
because he may now believe the greater power will
be on the other side?  Are there others who are
only there because they thought that side was
safest and are now rethinking this rationale?

Or, will they write it off as a lucky break?  But
how often can one kid have a lucky break?  

How much doubt will Voldemort's boast raise?

"'You see, I think, how foolish it was to suppose
that this boy could ever have been stronger than
me,' said Voldemort. 'But I want there to be no
mistake in anybody's mind.  Harry Potter escaped
me by a lucky chance.  And I am now going to
prove my power by killing him, here and now, in
front of you all, when there is no Dumbledore to
help him, no mother to die for him.  I will give
him his chance.  He will be allowed to fight, you
and will be left in no doubt which of us is the
stronger....'"  (GoF, p. 571, UK)

Will some DE's begin to wonder just who is
stronger?  How will they rationalize Harry's
escape from death this time?

Then again, I wonder about people who think it's
okay to kill a baby and that it's fair duel for a
14 year old to battle a fully grown wizard. 
However, I bet they're still not laughing.

Lynn

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