Accidental Harrycrux : a theory

[steven1965aaa]

No: HPFGUIDX 155398

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

>> I used to think that Lily's sacrifice acted as a kind of Protego 
that shielded Harry from the curse and that it bounced back, but that
> theory doesn't account for the scar, which is referred to by DD and
> others as a curse scar. Since an AK doesn't cause a scar and
> *something* cut Harry's forehead open, I account for it as the AK
> entering normally, failing to kill him because of Lily's sacrifice
> (the blood protection, which is *in* Harry's blood, and which the
> curse could not have sensed without actually encountering his 
blood) and bursting out again, perhaps in intensified form, so that 
it has sufficient force to explode both Voldemort and the house (or 
the house exploded from the explosion or vaporization of Voldemort, 
which also sent some of Voldemort's powers into the open wound). 
[snip]


Steven1965aaa:

Maybe the protection acted like "protego" around Harry's SOUL and 
not his body (postulating that AK attacks the soul), so the curse 
goes into Harry's body, but can't get to his protected soul 
and "rebounds" out of his body through the scar?  Makes as much 
sense as any of the other theories and fits in with all the soul 
themes.