Triple binding between Harry and Voldemort?

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 144745

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jeanette" <ejblack at r...> wrote:
>
>   I was talking Harry Potter with my son who came up with what could 
> be a brilliant idea.
> 
> You know the scene in the graveyard where Voldemort returns?
> .... HOWEVER, the flesh of the servant came from Wormtail, and 
> Wormtail has a life debt to Harry!!  That certainly has got to 
> have some magical consequences on the relationship between 
> Harry and Voldemort.
> 
> Now they are bound three ways; by the rebounding curse, by the 
> shared blood, and now by a life debt.
> 
> Definitely bears thinking about......
> 
> Jeanette
>

bboyminn:

I think it goes beyond that. Remember, it was suppose to be 'flesh of
a servant WILLINGLY given'. I think that particular flessh was
fearfully given, coercively given, reluctantly given, anything but
willingly given. True Wormtail commited the act by his own /hand/, but
what was his alternative...Death? ...torture? 

In the latest Mugglenet/LeakyCauldron Melissa/Emerson interview with
JKR at Edinburgh, JKR commented briefly on the 'Gleam' in Dumbledore's
eye after hearing of the events in the Graveyard...
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http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/articles/2005/0705-tlc_mugglenet-anelli-3.htm

MA: Does the gleam of triumph still have yet to make an appearance?

JKR: That's still enormously significant. And let's face it, I haven't
told you that much is enormously significant, so you can let your
imaginations run free there.

ES: I think everybody realized it was significant when they read it
but we didn't see it materialize in 5 or 6.

JKR: Well, it still is.
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While this primarily refers to the use of Harry's blood, it still
points to the fact or apparent belief that there is a flaw in the
potion. I believe there is more than one flaw in it, and the other
flaw would be Wormtail who was coerced into give /tainted/ flesh.

Part of Voldemort's problem is that he is so absolutely sure of his
own infallibility, of his own divine superiority, that he believes
that any plan he conceives is absolutely correct, and if it fails,
it's because his minions have failed him and not that the plan itself
might have been flawed to begin with. 

While we can't be sure of the details, it seems as if he
Bone/Flesh/Blood potion was indeed a flawed idea.

As a side note: it still seem impossible, or nearly so, for JKR to
pull together so many different and divergent plot twist in only one
books. As I said before, book 7 will either be the most dissappointing
or the most STUNNING book ever written; nothing in between.

Just a few thoughts.

Steve/bboyminn