LV and "Reflected" AK curse

[fanofminerva]

No: HPFGUIDX 128524

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "B.G." <hambtty at t...> wrote:
> Why didn't LV die?  I've been pondering this every since JKR told 
us 
> that is the question we should be asking.  And she told us that 
> Harry learned something in Chamber of Secrets that will be useful 
to 
> him.  So here goes:
> 
> He learned that seeing the eyes of a basilisk in a reflection can 
> save you from the full force of a curse/spell.  Mirrors and 
> reflections play a huge role in these books.  And JKR said that 
the 
> director of POA put some things in that foreshadow things that 
will 
> happen in Books 6 & 7.  There were a least two reflection scenes.  
> 
> I think that Lily was able to summon help for herself through 
magic 
> but chose to use her power to summon protection for Harry instead 
> thus, sacrificing herself.  She used some type of mirror to work a 
> charm whereby LV's curse did not hit Harry but rebounded back onto 
> LV.  LV did not die because it was reflected and he was not 
> petrified because he was using a potion (possibly made with 
mandrake 
> roots).  She thought LV would be petrified and therefore found by 
> the OP and his reign of terror would end.  Sacrificing herself 
Lily 
> created a long lasting protection that has kept Harry safe at his 
> aunt's home all these years. But what saved both Harry and LV was 
a 
> mirror.


I, too, like the theory of the curse being reflected, but I do not 
think it was a mirror.  My opinion following your theory is that the 
ancient magic Lily used to protect Harry is what reflected the 
curse.  The magic saved Harry but he "absorbed" some of the curse, 
thuse leaving his scar.  LV did not die because he did not receive 
the full blast of the AK curse, but a reflected partial curse.  The 
real question is "Whattup wid de ancient magic, Lil?"  What did she 
use, and is this linked to how he eventually will be defeated (with 
the antecedent of "he" being either LV or HP, according to the 
prophecy)?

Julie