Long lived

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No: HPFGUIDX 101014

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "snow15145" <snow15145 at y...> wrote:
> 
> As for the scar
 Like I said previously, the attempt of the AK hit 
> Harry but because of Lily's protection, that is stated above, didn't 
> kill him, but it still attempted to hit him causing Harry to be 
> struck and scared at the attempt, but not killed. So the initial hit 
> of green light struck Harry but rebounded leaving a scar
went to Lily 
> killing her
then to Voldemort and finally rebounding on the now 
> unprotected child (because all of Lily's charms have now been used) 
> that received some of Voldemort's powers. A whole lot of green light 
> bouncing!  
> 


Hang on a minute! 
You've got curses bouncing round like ping-pong balls!
And you've got the sequence wrong. The protection did not exist until
after Lily had sacrificed herself. Lily died - that created the protection;=
 as
Voldy says:
"His mother died in the attempt to  save him - and unwittingly provided 
him with a protection I admit I had not forseen...I could not touch the boy=
."

"Unwittingly" is significant too - Lily didn't know what her sacrifice woul=
d
result in. There is an ambiguous little speech by DD in OoP chap 37, where
he says that he set up the protection for Harry, but whether it was the
Privet Drive blood-relation variety, the anti-Voldy variety or both is uncl=
ear.
Frustrating. Deliberately so, I suspect.

What is clear is that it was Old Magic, something so obscure that Voldy
disregarded it. Who would be more likely to know about such things?
A young witch like Lily or a cunning old bastard like DD? I've wondered
previously if the protection was set up  beforehand without Lily's 
knowledge; a last-ditch defence that would be triggered automatically
by her death. (That would mean that DD had a pretty good idea what
might happen and still did not provide the Potters with proper protection.
Well, if James and Lily have to die to turn Harry into Weapon!Harry then
DD'd probably think it was worth it.)

It's  the sequence that makes me wonder why Harry only sees one green
flash - the first kills Lily and he gets protection; where's the second tha=
t
gives him his scar? Very odd. Unless the curse that gives him his scar was
something else entirely; something that projected the Voldy!Mind at Harry,
was mostly repelled, but left some bits behind.

The scar reacts depending on Voldy's level of activity. Is the scar the 
embodiment of the Voldy fragments that were left behind? If it  reacts as
described it's probably permanently linked to Voldy, may even be his
means of access into Harry's mind; conversely it may be Harry's means
of access into Voldy's mind at some critical time in the future. What would=
 
happen if the scar were removed? It's possible that DD knows more
about the scar than he lets on. In PS/SS Minerva suggests removing it, he
responds "Even if I could, I wouldn't. Scars can come in useful." Like as a=

portal into the mind of your enemy. Very handy.

And if the mind of your enemy is mostly a damn near immortal parasitic
entity that maybe could be lured out or otherwise dislodged, then the
possibilities for fun and games increase geometrically. Voldy fed false
information to Harry; any reason why Harry shouldn't return the 
compliment?

Kneasy