Harry'sPowers(was:SHIP: JKR: Recent Comment on the Shipping Controversy)

[sarah_haining]

No: HPFGUIDX 102319

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "greatelderone" 
<greatelderone at y...> wrote:

> 
> GEO: Except we know that he didn't do it. It was his mother's 
> sacrifice that gave him the protection to defeat Voldemort.

To go off on a slight tangent here, something always puzzled me 
about Harry's chat with Cho in OOTP about this subject. 
Unfortunately I don't have the books to hand so can't quote, but I'm 
pretty sure it was when the pair were in the Owlery. Harry was 
explaining to Cho that even with the training they were getting with 
DA, Cedric still never stood a chance against Voldemort. Cho pointed 
out that Harry survived when he was only a baby and Harry responds 
that NO ONE KNOWS WHY he survived.

I don't know if I'm just being excessively dumb here but I thought 
we all knew exactly why Harry survived and Voldemort was defeated - 
his mothers sacrifice caused the curse to rebound on Voldemort. So 
why would Harry treat it as if it were still unexplained? Because he 
didn't want to get into that conversation with Cho?

Can anyone clear this up?

Cheers, Sarah