The Death Chamber

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 81672

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Richard" <darkmatter30 at y...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "entropymail" 
> <entropymail at y...> wrote:
> <snipping my (Richard's) prior comments>
> > Yes, surely "dead is dead." But you must admit that there are 
myriad
> > examples of JKR's "cheating" a bit on the dead stuff. From the 
house
> > ghosts, to the figures dripping from Voldemort's wand in the
> > graveyard, to the listening/sleeping/gossiping portraits in
> > Dumbledore's office, the WW is certainly a place where the dead 
are
> > never quite completely gone.
> 
> 
> also sprach Richard ... ("thus spoke Richard" for the non-German 
> speakers and those who haven't read Friedrich N.)
>

<snip>

 
> Harry has also survived other AK 
> attempts, such as Lucius Malfoy's interupted AK from the CoS movie, 
> and another AK fired at him at the MoM and blocked by the statue.  
> But would any of these really have killed him?  > Eventually, JKR 
will enlighten us all, but until then, canon provides 
> some intriguing clues and blind alleys ... which is just SOOO much 
> fun!
>

<snip>
 
> 
> Richard, who is curious what would have happened had Dobby not 
> intervened in CoS.

Geoff:
Auch sprach Geoff, in Anwort nach Richard.... (Geoff spoke also, in 
reply to Richard)

Here we have got movie "contamination", though I don't like the use 
of the word - I like the films as well as the book (cries 
of "heretic" from off-stage)

There is no reference to a spell in the book -

"Lucius Malfoy stood frozen, staring at the elf. Then he lunged at 
Harry.
'You've lost me my servant, boy!'
But Dobby shouted, 'You shall not harm Harry Potter!'"

Dobby intervened because Harry intervened because Dobby was there. 
Nice circular argument. :-)