Dumbledore's integrity (was Prophecy problems)

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 79515

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mochajava13" 
<mochajava13 at y...> wrote:

Sarah:
> Maybe the fact that Harry doesn't seem to fear 
> death but Voldemort does could be the power Harry has that 
> Voldemort 
> doesn't.  Voldemort is terrified of death; Harry at times seems to 
> embrace it.  Harry didn't defend himself in OoP when Voldemort cast 
> the Adava Kedavra curse.  Harry thought that death would be better 
> that the pain he felt while possessed by Voldemort.  Maybe this, as 
> well as his thought that he could be with Sirius, was what 
> disallowed Voldemort from possessing Harry.  

Geoff:
Personally, I don't read it that way.

"Voldemort paid no attention.
'I have nothing to say to you, Potter,' he said quietly, 'You have 
irked me too often, for too long AVADA KEVADRA!'
Harry had not even opened his mouth to resist; his mind was blank, 
his wand pointing uselessly at the floor." (OOTP p.717 UK Bloomsbury 
edition)

I think Harry has been wrong-footed and has not had time to react in 
defence of himself.

Geoff