you CAN'T hurt a BABY!!!

[pentzouli]

No: HPFGUIDX 109839

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "theredshoes86" 
<ballerinalaura at m...> wrote:
> In the 5th book, when Harry and the gang are running from 
Voldemort's Death Eaters in the Ministry of Magic, there comes a 
point when Harry wants to curse the man whose head turned into a 
baby's head and Hermione stops Harry. 
 She says, "you can't hurt a baby" and then something like 'there 
was no time to argue the suggestion' follows.  
> 
> Has this particular part stuck out to anyone else???  
> Could, perhaps, Harry being a baby at the time when Voldemort 
tried to kill him have anything to do with Voldemort's powers being 
destroyed???
 I mean, why else would Hermione say that? the guy was a Death 
Eater, she wouldn't have minded hurting him. And there are no other 
accounts of babies being hurt in any of the books ....
 ANY THOUGHTS??????


Hello!
I would like to share my thoughts on that one:
First of all, let's keep in mind two or three things :
-For one, Hermione is the "brains" in that Trio.
-Second, they are in a middle of a very quick fight, and they don't 
have time to lose, either, as their ultimate goal is to find Sirius.
So, my immediate thought was that this particular phrase had one and 
only purpose : to prevent Harry from both losing time and stamina by 
casting spells here and there. Why is that? you would ask me... 
Well, the Deatheater's head that was struck by this curse or 
something, was taking the shape AND the mentality of a baby. It is 
as if Hermione was trying to say to Harry : "You can't hurt a baby, 
and surely the baby can't hurt you, so let's go and not waste any 
more time here. If his head is a baby's, he can't possibly do us any 
harm either, as he can hardly speak enough to cast a spell. So leave 
him and let's go, while he still has a baby's head!" But since they 
had so limited time in their heads, this phrase would be squeezed in 
so little words...


What do you think?

pentzouli