The only one he ever feared?

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No: HPFGUIDX 117247


Juli was making a lot of sense when wrote:

"... maybe one of the three times the Potters faced LV and got away,
he may have seen something in her [Lily's] eyes, I don't think it
could be love, it could have been that same power Harry has, and as he
is not able to handle it (as we saw during the brief possession at the
MoM) and hates it, so he could have thought: I'll kill him now while
he's a baby and his power's not fully developed. As he knew Lily also
had the power, that's why he was reluctant to kill her, he may have
known she was too much for him, but because she sacrificed herself for
Harry, he was able to kill her but not Harry. Am I making any sense?"

And caused Kim to ask another question:

Juli, are you saying, that in the act of her dying to save Harry, that
Lily passed on that power *completely* to Harry, and so LV was then
able to kill her, but Harry was now "immune" to LV like his mother had
been?  Maybe Lily passed on part of her very essence to Harry when she
died, so as a result his eyes turned green like hers.  Maybe Harry'd
have grown up blue- or brown-eyed otherwise?

I guess we've all more or less agreed that Lily passed on the "ancient
magic" to Harry when she died, but I hadn't seen it quite in this
particular light before.  But I do think that the ancient magic may in
fact be love -- not love so much in the sentimental or romantic sense,
but in the sense of the all-encompassing power of life, including the
acceptance of life on life's terms, as well as the acceptance of death
as a part of life.  Voldemort shows he can clearly accept neither,
though by the end of the story I'm sure he will have to (at least I
think I'm sure... ;-))

Kim