DE's touching Harry Was: Re: The Case for Lupin

[Berit Jakobsen]

No: HPFGUIDX 85209

Pippin wrote:

Lupin touches Harry for the first time when Harry is unconscious. 
"Lupin was tapping Harry hard on the face" PoA ch. 12. If he was 
afraid of a violent reaction that would be the safe way to go about 
it.   
 
No wizard, not even Dumbledore apparently, knows exactly how 
the ancient magic, "magic at its deepest, its most impenetrable" 
really works. It behooves ESE!Lupin to be cautious, since he is 
the first DE to touch Harry since Quirrell suffered immolation. But   
since Lupin was able to touch Harry, the other DE's could then 
do so, either because the magic doesn't work unless Voldemort 
is actually possessing them, or because Voldemort used Harry's 
blood to re-embody himself.

Me:

I don't have the reference, but I believe Dumbledore explained to 
Harry why Quirrel couldn't touch him without suffering: It was 
because Voldemort was in direct contact with him, riding on the back 
of his head. Had Quirrel been on his own with no Voldie stuck to the 
top of his head, he could freely have touched Harry without hurting 
himself. It is Voldemort who can't (couldn't) touch Harry without 
experiencing pain (because of Lily's protection), just like Harry's 
scar burns painfully whenever Voldemor is nearby. So this has nothing 
to do with Death Eater's not being able to touch Harry, it has rather 
got to do with the special connection forged between Voldemort and 
Harry.

(And I am really puzzled some readers can see cannon evidence for 
Lupin being a Death Eater... :-)

Berit