Lily, LV and Harry at GH.

[khinterberg]

No: HPFGUIDX 113457

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Hannah" <hannahmarder at y...> 
wrote:
> There's been a lot of discussion over the past week or so about 
> sacrificial love, and about the apparant absence of the AK that LV 
> used on baby Harry during the 'priori incantum' during GoF.  I 
have 
> formed a theory, it's quite controversial, but I thought I'd share 
> it anyway.
> 
> What if the absence of that AK was due not to being another sort 
of 
> spell, but because LV didn't cast it at all.  What if Lily cast 
the 
> AK that hit Harry?  I DO NOT mean that Lily is any way evil.  But 
> think about the sacrificial love thing.  Dying for someone you 
love 
> is a great sacrifice, but so is killing someone you love to save 
> them from a worse fate.
> 
> This theory is based on the idea that LV wanted not to kill Harry 
> immediately, but to use him somehow.  At least try to find out 
what 
> is was about this baby that gave him the potential power to defeat 
> him.  I think this is quite a likely possibility.  DD could have 
> warned Lily and James about this. 
> 
> So's here's how events might have gone.  LV turns up and kills 
> James.  Lily runs up to get Harry, but for some reason doesn't get 
> away in time.  LV arrives, Lily tries to block Harry, offers 
herself 
> instead etc.  She doesn't use her wand against LV, since she knows 
> it's not going to do any good.  When she realises her pleading has 
> failed and that LV is about to kill her, she does the only thing 
she 
> can think of to save her son from torture and a slow death/ being 
> brought up as an LV 'mini-me' - she AK's him.  At the same time, 
LV 
> hits her with the same spell. 
> 
> But AK is a spell that depends a lot on the intention of the one 
> casting it.  When Lily's AK hits Harry, it doesn't kill him, 
because 
> Lily's intention was to *save* Harry, even though killing him 
seemed 
> to be the only way she had left to do that.  So the spell 
rebounds, 
> perhaps also due to the fact Lily has just died trying to defend 
> him.  
> 
> The rebounded AK hits LV, and does a lot of damage, but it cannot 
> kill him, partly because of whatever he has done to make himself 
> immortal, partly because it wasn't intended for him.  The rest is 
> history.
> 
> I'm sure this theory is full of glaring holes and I don't exactly 
> believe it myself, but it does account for several things - why LV 
> didn't die, why Harry didn't die, why Harry saw only one flash of 
> green light, why the spell did so much damage (2 AK's 
> simulataneously, hitting 3 people), and why the spell never showed 
> up during priori incantum on LV's wand.  And it seems like the 
sort 
> of plot twist that JKR might use.
> 
> Anyway, there you have it.  What do you think?
> Hannah


khinterberg:
This theory actually sounds rather believable, except for a bit of 
canon I came across:

"Harry had escaped from the same attack with nothing more than a 
scar on his forehead, where Voldemort's curse, instead of killing 
him, had rebounded upon its originator." - PoA p 6 U.S. pb

I can't read this passage any way other than that Voldemort cast the 
curse that rebounded(be it AK or something else
).