James and Lily defying Voldemort

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 147905

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, catherine higgins 
<saberbunny at ...> wrote:
>
> CH3ed:
> >> 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 <<
> 
> 
> Actually 5 times if you also consider his escape as a baby when 
> the AK curse failed to kill him....
>   Cat

Geoff:
Quite. This has prompted the discussion on which of the five doesn't 
count. Consensus seems to favour Godric's Hollow.

The 'four times' comes from canon:
"He chose the boy he thought most likely to be a danger to him,"
said Dumbledore. "And notice this, Harry, he chose, not the pure-
blood (which, according to his creed, is the only kind of wizard 
worth being or knowing) but the half-blood like himself. He saw 
himself in you before he had ever seen you and in marking you with 
that scar, he did not kill you, as he intended, but gave you powers 
and a future which have fitted you to escape him not once, but four 
times so far - something that neither your parents,nor Neville's 
parents, ever achieved."
(OOTP "The Lost Prophecy" p.742 UK edition)