Harry's protection

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 113006

SSSusan:
>>>So I'm going with Sacrificial Love as the Power that Lord 
Voldythingy Knows Not *and* which is somehow studied in that room in 
the Dept. of  Mysteries.  <<<<


DuffyPoo:
The problem, as I see it, is that Lord Voldythingy *does* know it.  "His mother died in the attempt to save him -- and unwittingly provided him with a protection I admit I had not forseen....[later]  His mother left upon him the traces of her sacrifice .. this is old magic, I should have remembered it, I was foolish to overlook it ... [later again]  I miscalculated, my friends, I admit it.  My curse was deflected by the woman's foolish sacrifice." (GoF)  LV clearly says he "should have remembered" the old magic, the magic of sacrifice. 

"Your mother died to save you.  If there's one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love.  He didn't realized that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark..."  (PS)  You and I don't understand Time Turning ;-). We couldn't "not understand" it if we didn't know about it.  

"But I knew, too, where Voldemort was weak.  And so I made my decision.  You would be protected by an ancient magic of which *he knows,* which *he despises,* 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." (OotP - all emphasis mine)  LV knows the magic, despises it, and underestimates it.

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