Harry's Protection (was Re: Questions)

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No: HPFGUIDX 119141


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "M.Clifford" <Aisbelmon at h...> wrote:
> > 
> > Kneasy:
> > Yep.  That power. Something else again, I think - and separate from
> > the various protections. Everyone wants to know what it is and how
> > it can crunch Voldy. 
> > 
> 
> Valky:
> Now I think I see here that you are considering the *touch* of 
> Harry's skin to be the power that Voldemort does not know. 
> DD says in GOF something like 'hmm yes he has overcome *that 
> particular* obstacle. Meaning he can now touch Harry.
> Then in OOtP Voldemort encounters the unbearable *touch* of Love 
> *inside* Harry, so I see what you mean.
> Outside, Inside, then where?
> >
> 
> 
Kneasy:
Um. No, not  really -  though Voldy having circumvented the Ancient
Magic protection may open the way for that power (whatever it is) to
be used against him.

See, I know that lots of fans think or hope that 'love' is the answer.
I'm one of those that hopes otherwise - it's too Disneyfied  for my
taste. But not only that, whatever the power is, DD must have
recognised it way back at GH. He stuffs Harry into Privet Drive
because he sees him as something special, the one foretold in the
Prophecy the one that *has* the power - meaning he'd got it already.

If Harry is filled with love why allow the Dursleys to treat him as they did?
What's DD up to? Testing it to destruction? In fact, so far as I can see
there is only one character that could be considered as demonstrating 
a kind of love and compassion  towards all and sundry - and that's DD 
himself. So why does he need Harry to do a job he could have sorted
out himself years ago?

JKR has gone on record saying she admires courage and that one of the
main themes of the tale is death. Taking these into account I  offered
the suggestion last year that the power would be some variant on
Life, Life Force overcoming all obstacles - or something similar. It
fits with what DD says about the locked room. 

Consider the Dept. of Mysteries and the rooms the kids go through.
Compare these with what DD has to say  about  what isn't in the
Locked Room:
"More wonderful  and more terrible than Death (the Death Chamber),
than human intelligence (the brain tank), than the forces of nature
(the planetary system)." 
Throw in the paradoxes of Time as another make-weight mystery.

To my mind what fits very well into this little list of subjects suitable
for the study of the mysterious isn't love but the mystery of life itself. 
And when you recall that Voldy is about death (Death Eaters) and by 
attempting immortality is trying to circumvent natural life as we know 
it - well, I think I'm in with a fighting chance of being right.

Just how she's going to relate this to Harry is something I  haven't
quite figured out yet.