Harry's Powers

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No: HPFGUIDX 79636

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Potterfanme" <fc26det at a...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "annemehr" <annemehr at y...> 
> wrote:
> > --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Emily" 
<pinoypartygal at a...> 
> 
> 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


Sof:

Actually, Lily's sacrifice is a different protection from the blood 
charm that protects Harry at Petunia's house. Voldemort is very 
particular about this. He worked the blood charm on Harry *because* 
of the nature of Lily's protection. By accepting Harry, Petunia 
sealed the pact and by kicking him out, she would be breaking it. 

Voldemort and Dumbledore have both been very specific in explaining 
that Lily's death was a countercharm that lingers in Harry's blood 
protecting him personally from her killer. And the blood charm on 
Petunia's residence provides a location of sanctuary where Harry 
cannot be harmed by his mother's killer. In "Goblet of Fire" 
Voldemort gets around the first charm by using some of Harry's blood 
to recreate himself. He can now touch Harry, but he states that the 
other magic still prevents him from harming Harry in 4 Privet Drive.

So there is still one more refuge for Harry. This makes perfect sense 
given Dumbledore's insistence that Harry always go home for a while, 
and that he remain inside the house following the Dementor attack. If 
that protection was no longer in place, there would be no reason to 
send Harry back to the Dursleys at the end of "Goblet of Fire" 
and "Order of the Phoenix."