The Scar. Was: Choices - or not

[ghinghapuss]

No: HPFGUIDX 89828

> Whizbang wrote:
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> Beyond that, <snip> if there was a countercurse, I'm sure 
> everyone would know it.  Molly would be practicing it on a shooting 
> range.  If there is a countercurse, it seems odd that Lily would be 
> the only one who knew it.
> It seems like Harry's being "the one with the power" is what 
> backfired Voldemort's AK.


Mandy here:
Hello again. 
There is no counter curse as Crouch Jr./Mad Eye says so in 
GoF. "...and there is no counter curse.  There is no blocking it. 
Only one person is known to have survived it, and he is sitting right 
in front of me." Page 216, Gof American Ed. (I love that whole scene. 
Especially reading it once you know that Moody is really Crouch Jr.  
It's delightfully sadistic.)   

What Lily used was some really old and virtually forgotten magic.  LV 
speaks of it as being 'old magic' on page 653, GoF American Ed.   And 
we do have a precedent of some types of magic being almost forgotten 
or pushed aside.  Snape speaks of Occulmency as "an obscure branch of 
magic, but a highly useful one."  OotP page 519, American Ed.    So 
there are spells out there that are so ancient that the general WW 
populous no longer use.  One would think however, that something as 
useful as a defense of the AK would not be forgotten, so I'm inclined 
to think that whatever it was that Lily used, it was not considered 
an AK defense spell. It was `something else' that combined with he 
power of the AK, turned into yet another `something else' entirely.

Yes, Harry is definitely the only one with the power to vanquish the 
Dark Lord, and that could be what backfired the AK.   But I don't 
think it is what prevented his death, that was aided by Lily.

Cheers Mandy.