LV's survival (was GH again)

[carolynwhite2]

No: HPFGUIDX 112060

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Anita Hillin <akhillin at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> arrowsmithbt <arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote, using the quote on another 
topic:
> Why didn't Lily run, why didn't Lily fight?

> [more snips, then Kneasy goes on to quote canon from OOTP]:
> 
> "And so I made my decision. You would be protected by an ancient 
magic of which *he knows, which he despises,* [akh emphasis]and which 
he has always, therefore, underestimated -  to  his cost. I am 
speaking, of course, of the fact that your mother died to save you." 
> 
> 
> akh: This triggered the synapses, connecting JKR's comment at the 
Edinburgh appearance, where she said we should be asking why 
Voldemort didn't die at GH.  Perhaps DD is saying LV knows about this 
specific magic; in other words, his mother deliberately did not save 
her own life, thereby saving her son's.  LV may have a version of the 
same "ancient magic," and his mother's sacrifice is what has kept him 
alive.  

Carolyn:
This is an interesting idea, another version of priori incantatem in 
other words - whenever Harry and Voldemort meet, they cannot kill 
each other for some reason. In the graveyard scene it was because 
their wands had the same core, back at Godric's Hollow you are now 
suggesting that its because they are both protected by the same spell.

Maybe gives further meaning to that cryptic 'But in essence divided?' 
remark of DD's. I have posted before now that I think Tom Riddle was 
a failed protege of DD's, someone destined to inherit DD's mantle as 
most powerful wizard in the WW, but who, for some reason took the 
Dark Arts path, and has unfortunately become a loose cannon that DD 
must destroy before Voldie destroys everything he has worked for.

With his deep knowledge of ancient magic, DD probably understands why 
LV did not manage to kill Harry at Godric's Hollow, and it suggested 
to him that the second wand should be made in readiness for Harry's 
entry into the WW, in the hope that LV would again miscalculate 
(which indeed he did). 

[I hope no one still imagines that it is a coincidence that that wand 
was waiting at Ollivanders, and that Harry chose it].

Carolyn