The Scar. Was: Choices - or not

[whizbang]

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> Mandy here:
> 
> Yes Ollivander does say the "...when it's brother gave you that 
> scar.",  but that's because it's what everyone in the WW believes. 
> With an absence of witnesses to the events in Godric's Hollow no 
one 
> is able to disagree.  But it doesn't necessarily mean it actually 
> happened.  DD also told Harry Voldemort gave him his scar but I'm 
> trusting DD less and less in each book. 
> 
> Yes, the prophecy states that Voldemort will "mark him as his 
equal" 
> but there has been a lot of debate on this site as to exactly 
> what 'mark' means. A physical mark or psychological mark?  Not to 
> mention the whole debate on the idea that another could the 'One'. 
By 
> they way, I personally believe it is Harry who is one to vanquish 
> Lord Voldemort not Neville.
> 
> Cheers Mandy

Whizbang

Please show us in canon any evidence that Lily did a charm.  Dying 
to protect Harry left traces of her love on him that was 
protective.  But it was Dumbledore who did the charm and it required 
that Harry call home the place where his mother's blood dwells.

Dumbledore referring to Petunia:
"... yet still she took you, and in doing so, she sealed the charm I 
placed upon you.  Your mother's sacrifice made the bond of blood the 
stongest shield I could give you."

"While you can still call home the place where your mother's blood 
dwells, there you cannot be touched or harmed by Voldemort.  He shed 
her blood, but it lives on in you and her sister.  Her blood became 
your refuge.  You need return there only once a year, but as long as 
you can still call it home, there he cannot hurt you."

~Order of the Phoenix, page 836, American Edition

This is clearly telling us that the protective charm was done by 
Dumbledore himself.  He used the "bond of blood" created when 
Voldemort shed Lily's blood as she willingly sacrificed herself for 
her child.

It also tells us that this protection is only active in the place 
where his mother's blood dwells, Petunia's home; and that it only 
protects Harry from Voldemort as it was he who shed Lily's blood.

This raises the question, why couldn't Quirrell touch Harry at 
Hogwarts?  Is there someone there who also shares this blood?  It 
seems the logical explanation.  Harry so often refers to Hogwarts as 
his home.

Even Voldemort, at the end of GoF, knew that he had to seperate 
Harry from the Dursleys and get him out from under the crooked nose 
of Dumbledore.  But what he apparently doesn't know is that, away 
from the Dursleys and Dumbledore, Voldemort probably could have 
touched Harry anyway.  Still, the Dark Lord now has both Harry's 
blood containing Lily's protection, her blood bond, and Pettigrew's 
flesh containing a life debt to Harry.  By all accounts, Voldemort 
should be feeling somewhat ill.

-Whizbang, who sincerely hopes this post is within the guidelines.