James and Lily defying Voldemort

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No: HPFGUIDX 147839

Amontillada wrote: <snipped a bunch and an edit> 
"On the other hand, it's hard for me to believe that Lily and James 
had confronted him((LV)) firsthand three times, and yet had not been 
killed ---- it doesn't mesh with that that they had survived three 
confrontations--and so had the Longbottoms. Perhaps "thrice defied" 
referred to three particularly important occasions."


CH3ed:
I believe DD told Harry while they discussed things in DD's office 
at the end of OotP that Harry had just defied LV the 4th time, which 
was 'more than his parents had done'. Sorry I don't have the book 
with me today. But I think just escaping with your life from a face-
to-face confrontation with LV when you are his enemy is probably 
considered as having defied LV. At the end of OotP Harry had escaped 
LV alive 4 times against LV's will;
1. in PS/SS from the dungeon
2. in CoS from the Chamber of Secrets (with Tom Riddle)
3. in GoF from the graveyard scene
4. in OotP from the fight at the MoM

CH3ed :O)