Harry's Protection (was Re: Questions

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 119730


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Juli <jlnbtr at y...> wrote:

Juli:
> I know this discussion is over, but anyway.
> Reading the ending of PS/SS again I came upon this
> quote:
> 
> (PS/SS Chapter 10)
> 

<quote snipped>

> This statment by Dumbledore makes me reconsider the
> whole power issue, it says very clearly here that the
> reason why Quirrel!LV couldn't touch Harry was because
> of the protection Lily left him, and this is love. I
> guess I'll have to eat my own words.
> 
> Juli, choking after eating all her words about love
> been tacky or corny Glup glup glup

Geoff:
I hate to go into "told you so" mode, but I did quote this very 
section in message 119096 when Dungrollin was disagreeing with 
the "sacrificial love" faculty.....

When eating your words, remember the advice given by Mary Poppins. "A 
spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down in a most delightful 
way..."