revelations from the Edinburgh Festival

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No: HPFGUIDX 110114

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Diane Klopp" <dklopp at p...> wrote:
> At the Edinburgh Festival, JKRowling has reveled the following:
> 
> 1. Why didn't Voldemort die when he tried to kill Harry? JK said that
> in the end of book four, Voldemort had said he had taken various steps
> against dying, but we should be wondering exactly what he did.
> 
> 2. Why didn't Dumbledore try to kill Voldemort in that scene at the
> end of book five?
> 
> Dumbledore gave a kind of reason to Voldemort but it's not the real
> answer, and that Dumbledore knows something more.
> 
> JK said if we are wondering about the overall plot, we should be
> concentrating on those two questions.


Ooh, interesting! Let's see...knowing that :

1)Lily used Ancient Magic to protect Harry (I believe the scar on
Harry's head is actually a protective rune, rather than a lightning bolt)

and 

2)Voldemort has knowledge of "ancient magic" (he used it to restore
his body in GoF's graveyard scene)

...could it be that Voldemort has used ancient magic before? Did he
perform a protection charm on himself, similar to the one Lily may
have used on Harry?  And how might this tie into the deaths of his
grandparents and father at the Riddle House?  

Stay with me here: Sorry, I can't find where, but someone mentioned
before that all of the Ancient Magic we've seen seems to follow a
similar pattern of sacrifice.  Harry's mother was sacrificed for
Harry, Wormtail's hand was sacrificed for Voldy, and the charm DD put
on the Dursley House to protect Harry seems to have required something
(some sacrifice?) from Petunia. 

So, could Voldy (as Tom Riddle) have murdered his family as part of an
elaborate protection charm?  Seems to fit.  And, if DD knew this, he
probably wouldn't have bothered to try to kill Voldemort, knowing it
was futile.  He knows (or believes) that the only one who can kill
Voldemort is his secret weapon, Harry.

Yummy!

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