I wonder what this magic is....

[fauntine_80]

No: HPFGUIDX 102834

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "M.Clifford" <Aisbelmon at h...> 
wrote:
> In OotP on page 10 of my edition printed in Australia, I found 
> this...
> 
> " 'Get - off - me!' Harry gasped. For a few seconds they 
struggled, 
> Harry pulling at his uncles sausage-like fingers with his left 
hand, 
> his right maintaining a firm grip on his raised wand; then, as the 
> pain in the top of Harrys head gave a particularly nasty throb, 
> Uncle Vernon yelped and released Harry as though he had recieved 
and 
> electric shock. Some invisible force seemed to have surged through 
> his nephew making him impossible to hold. " 
> 
> Further on a paragraph suggests that Uncle Vernon had Harry in 
some 
> type of stranglehold which in turn suggests that Harry may have 
> internally percived a threat upon his life here.
> 
> What I would like to discuss is which magic is this that created 
the 
> invisible force surging through Harry. 
> Unlike the incedent with Aunt Marge no further mention of this 
event 
> was made by anyone in the Ministry or otherwise authorative. 
Almost 
> as though nobody knew it had happened..... but for us readers. 
> 
> Is this possibly the power that the Dark Lord knows not? Is it the 
> protection of Lily extending beyond Voldemort?
> 
> Suggestions..... comments........ rebuttals......???
> 
> Valky


Very cool theory!

I never thought of it that way before.  When I read the passage, I 
thought that Harry subconsciously created a surge -  kind of like 
the defense mechanism of an electric eel.  I was wondering why he 
wouldn't get an official warning for the use of underage magic.

But, I really like your theory!  It does make sense.  And, it is 
always uncanny how Harry can get out of the most difficult of 
situations.  This was just a small incident.  But, JKR has a 
tendency of putting big clues into small incidents...

~Mo