Harry's Powers

[Potterfanme]

No: HPFGUIDX 79631

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "annemehr" <annemehr at y...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Emily" <pinoypartygal at a...> 
> wrote:
> <snip> 
> >After 
> > much discussing with my older brother (whom I got sucked into the 
> > magical world that is Harry Potter) we both came to the consensus 
> > that when LV took some of Harry's blood that instead of removing 
> > Lily's protection from Harry but in fact, he (LV) now has the 
> > protection himself. This would mean that they would not be able 
to 
> > kill each other (despite the prophecies words...which I still 
> think 
> > are a bit hokey)
> <snip>
> 
> Your theory does introduce a symmetry that I find pleasing.  So, 
> just as Voldemort's and Harry's wands are "brothers" and will not 
> work properly against each other, maybe Harry and Voldemort are now 
> connected in such a way that they *cannot* kill each other?  Then I 
> suppose the first one who tried it would end up stripping himself 
of 
> his own powers?  And then *neither* would die at the hand of the 
> other, though it would make a satisfying ending to see LV try it.
> 
> Ah, but the reason LV did not die the first time was because he had 
> gone very far on the road to immortality -- but now he has settled 
> for his old body back, except he now supposedly has Lily's 
> protection.  Maybe having Lily's protection means that if *Harry* 
> tried to kill LV, the attempt would rebound on Harry now, too.  But 
> what if LV tried to kill Harry now and managed to avoid the wand 
> connection?  Wouldn't an AK still bounce off Harry and hit LV, only 
> now LV is merely mortal so that he would only manage to kill 
> *himself*?  And Harry would die if he tried to kill LV?  But, if 
> that's the case, the prophecy would have to say that "either shall 
> die at his own hand..." and you'd think it meant suicide if you 
> didn't know better...
> 
> Annemehr
> cursing the day she read that prophecy...

Susan again:
I think Lily's protection and Harry's inborn powers are separate.  I 
think Lily's protection is more of a shield type protection similar 
to the Protego charm and that is why Harry is safe at Petunia's.  
That protection is not in his blood so to speak.  It is around him 
all the time but reinforced when he is with a blood relative of 
Lily's.  We know Petunia has a hard time looking at Harry much less 
ever touching him.  If Lily's protection is in his blood, wouldn't 
Petunia have to at least have some sort of physical contact with him 
to reinforce it?  If it is more like a shield charm, her just being a 
blood relative would reinforce it.  

The power that Harry was born with to my mind would be more like the 
Priori Incantatem situation.  I think when LV attacked him the first 
time the cut on Harry's head worked in a similar way as his wand in 
GOF.  But instead of the wands battling each other, the scar took 
away some of LV's powers and left him less than a man.  I think this 
is why Harry was able to control the Priori Incantatem so well in 
GOF.  He obviously had much more power than LV at that time if he was 
able to send the beads back toward LV.

When LV took Harry's blood, the blood itself with the Priori 
Incantatum type power removed the immortality in LV that he worked so 
hard to acquire.

Susan