LV's survival [HPforGrownups] (quote taken from GH again (was Re: Why Voldemort Would Have Spared Lily))

[greatelderone]

No: HPFGUIDX 112070

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arrowsmithbt" 
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
> Small snag - "which he knows, which he despises and which he has 
> always, therefore, underestimated - to his cost."
> 
> Sounds as if his underestimation has led him to have problems 
before
> with this sort of magic. 

GEO: Not necessarily. 

> But when? He hated his father, but he talks of 
> his mother somewhat differently. So why would he 'despise' the 
magic
> that presumably saved him if your idea is correct?  

GEO: Becuase it seemed to have cost his mother her own life which in 
the end caused him to end up in a orphanage for the first decade of 
his life and also at the bottom of the social ladder in the 
Slytherin house during his Hogwarts years. 

Also the magic is based on love and remember how Voldemort regards 
that emotion.

> What was it that he underestimated and what was the cost he had to 
> pay? 

GEO: Lily's love for Harry and him losing his body? Perhaps also his 
mother's love for him, which allowed him to survive without a body 
for ten years.

> IIRC his mother died almost as soon as he was born, he'd know
> nothing of what happened and being brought up  in an orphanage
> as a Muggle wouldn't appreciate the significance of whatever she 
did
> anyway. 

GEO: Yes, but he'd no doubt have learned about the protection as he 
began studying magic more in depth after Hogwarts.