Lily, Voldemort, AK and the atomic bomb analogy

[saraquel_omphale]

No: HPFGUIDX 144023

Saraquel:
Who has been out of the loop for some time now, life events having 
taken over, but doubts whether this idea has been discussed in her 
absence.  I've been pondering, as ever, about Godric's Hollow and 
the nature of Lily's protection and Voldemort's power.  There are 
certain ideas which have formed in my mind which I like so much I'm 
having great difficulty letting go of them.  Often theories and 
inspirations catch fire for a short time, but then fade and drift 
off, but this one in particular is still burning – see if it 
smoulders for you.

It starts with the idea that the Avada Kadavra curse is created by 
splitting the soul, rather like the splitting of the atom, where a 
huge amount of energy is released, along with radiation.  The 
rushing sound which is heard when the spell is cast is the blast 
wave rolling out from the splitting of the soul.  Unlike Rose in 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/143995  I don't, 
at the moment, think that the murderer's split soul actually leaves 
their bodies, although, I do think that it is an interesting idea, 
but I do think that the shock wave contains traces of the powers of 
the caster, in an analogous way to radiation being spread.

So we have a situation where Lily stands between Harry and 
Voldemort.  Voldemort casts an Avada Kedavra, when the shockwave 
hits Lily (or any victim) it literally sweeps the victims soul out 
of their body, along with their life force/powers – hence the look 
of surprise, but no physical marks.  So now we possibly have a 
situation where Lily's soul/powers are swept back out of her body 
and onto Harry who is directly behind her.  The purpose of her 
sacrifice was to protect Harry, so Lily's soul and powers cling to 
Harry as she passes, knowing that Voldemort will continue on to try 
and kill Harry.  

Then Voldemort stands in front of Harry and blasts him with an AK 
too.  But maybe,  Lily's soul repels the curse and takes the hit and 
is blasted out of Harry's body, leaving Harry's soul and body still 
intact. In this way Lily in fact, sort of dies twice.  

JKR has said in the Mugglenet/LC interview, that Lily did not do 
anything special in terms of charms or anything, she simply stood in 
front of Harry.  This theory doesn't need anything special except 
the fact that she stands directly in front of him, which we know is 
what happened.

The lingering protection is the remnants of Lily's powers perhaps 
which were not totally blasted out of his body.  Taking the atomic 
bomb analogy further, if we equate powers to atomic radiation, then 
if Lily left some of her powers lingering in Harry, then when 
Voldemort touched him it would have been akin to being exposed to 
radiation burns. In CoS, Voldemort/Quirrel was unable to touch Harry 
because his touch literally burned them.

Another thought that links in with this is to do with patronuses.  
When Tonks fell for Lupin, her patronus changed.  We don't know 
exactly what it became, but in my reading, the implication was that 
it became a wolf. So her patronus took the form of the person she 
loved.  If this is so, apart from being a big give away :-) it might 
suggest that Lily's patronus would represent James – hence, a stag 
would seem highly appropriate.  (It also suggests that Snape's 
patronus could well reveal his secret (not-so-secret now, mate) 
love.)  So the fact that Harry has a stag patronus, might be because 
it was Lily's patronus, which nicely implies that not just James but 
Lily is also implicate in Harry's current protection and greatest 
happiness.

However, this still does not really explain exactly how Harry's scar 
came about and why it is positioned on Harry's forehead, but perhaps 
that is the result of what the soul of Lily did in order to protect 
Harry.  Although I'm open to being convinced, I'm still just about  
in the Harry is not a horcrux camp.  But that some of Voldemort's 
powers became lodged in him, is very possible in this scenario.  The 
second AK sends the blastwave of LVs magical powers radiation at 
Harry, and although Lily's soul prevents Harry's soul from being 
blasted from his body, keeping him alive, some of LV's powers invade 
Harry's body.

Hoping someone feels moved enough to respond and perhaps take the 
idea forward to suggest what might have caused the scar in more 
detail.

Saraquel