The Prophecy's half fulfilled

M.Clifford Aisbelmon at hotmail.com
Sun Aug 1 09:42:51 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 108370


> 
> DuffyPoo:
> 
> That's exactly what I'm saying.  He was marked - scar - by the 
curse rebounding off Lily's sacrifice - and possibly the transfer of 
powers (but as we have only seen one power that could possibly have 
been transferred, I'm holding back judgement on that).  HP didn't 
deflect the spell, even LV knows that now,  "My *curse was deflected 
by the woman's foolish sacrifice,* and it rebounded upon me." 
[emphasize mine, of course].  It had nothing to do with HP's powers.
> 

Valky:
On the contrary Duffy, this has *everything* to do with Harry's 
powers.
Harry was saved by the selfless sacrifice of another wizrd, if I am 
not mistaken this tends to create a *bond* between the wizards that 
in turn imposes a life debt on the saved.

But it is the *bond* that I would like to focus on. Just how much of 
Lily is now gilded in Harry, I wonder. He is already her son and 
thus genetically inherited of her magical abilities. But what more 
from the sacrifice?

What manifests of a life debt? We have seen how the blood of the 
sacrifice continued to give protection to Harry throughout his 
childhood, but DD still had that darned gleam, didn't he. There is 
no question ther's a "more" there somewhere, if only Snape and Peter 
would reveal themselves further to us so we'd have a better idea 
what this *else* might or might not be.

Best to You All





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