Survival of AK

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No: HPFGUIDX 113708

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
> 
> Carol:
> Absolutely. I agree that Lily's "ancient magic," which may have
> involved more than her willing self-sacrifice, is not a countercurse,
> which would be performed after the fact, but a form of magic that
> shielded Harry and deflected the curse onto LV. Harry didn't die
> because he was protected *in advance.*

Not quite that simple.
Crouch!Moodys actual words:-

"Not nice," he said calmly. "Not pleasant. And there's no counter-
curse. There's no blocking it."

So it can't be blocked either, which is in effect the action of a
'shielding' spell. 
This ties to another thread that wonders if it was an AK after all.
Only Crouch!Moody ever says that it is and how could he be that
certain? And at the  same  time that he makes this assumption he
keeps telling us that there is *no* protection against  an AK. 

JKR says we should be asking why Voldy didn't die. Most posters
have accepted that he was hit by a rebounding AK - a killing spell.
Since he had not yet achieved immortality he should have died.
He didn't. And the simplest answer as to "why?" is that it wasn't
an AK but something else that *could* be shielded against. Even
so, some part of the spell got through and implanted some
of Voldy's powers in Harry. Now why would an AK that bounced
do that? Or did it bounce? 

Something got through to Harry, invaded his mind and is still there.
There just might be  significance in Lily's words "Take me, kill me
instead..." The "take me" leads some of us to wonder just what
Voldy was up to. He knows from the first line of the prophecy that 
Harry has power. Might he not be interested in knowing just what 
this power consists of, and if possible try  to use it himself? To do
that he'd need to enter Harry's mind. A possession. It seems he was
partially successful before being repelled, but fragments were left 
behind. 

Fanciful, you may think. Possibly. 
But no more fanciful than supposing that an unstoppable killing
spell can, at the same time, be deflected *and* invade a mind to
implant powers. That takes really convoluted  thinking IMO.

Kneasy