[HPforGrownups] Re: Rereading SS/PS question(s)

[Peggy Wilkins]

No: HPFGUIDX 154028

On 6/18/06, Mike/once_red56 <mcrudele78 at yahoo.com> wrote:

Mike:
> I'm not sure Lily's protection is still around other than the blood
> protection Dumbledore added through Petunia. It's in Harry's blood and
> in Petunia's and it probably protects her from Voldy also.
>
> But there doesn't seem to be anything stopping Voldy from attacking
> Harry in GoF. Both the diary revenant Tom in CoS and Voldy in GoF seem
> to know that Harry has no protection because he has no mother to die
> for him anymore. And Voldy throws a couple-three spells at Harry that
> connect just fine. If one had been the AK would it have rebounded? I
> don't think so but who knows?

Peggy W:
As Dumbledore says in GOF, "Voldemort has overcome that particular
barrier".  It's clear he's referring to Voldemort's newfound ability
to touch Harry without suffering bodily destruction, but there may
indeed be more to it.  As you rightly suggest, Voldemort doesn't
hesitate in the least to fire Avada Kedavra at Harry in the graveyard
shortly after he touches him.  This suggests that there is no doubt in
Voldemort's mind that the AK won't backfire on him this time, and that
he could be successful; otherwise, he wouldn't even try.

Voldemort seems to understand exactly what happened to him at Godric's
Hollow, and his ability to touch Harry with his new body is the proof
(to himself) that he was correct.  (Note that Dumbledore also knows he
knows it: is this the basis of the gleam of triumph?)  He also
understands that he can now kill Harry with Avada Kedavra, with no one
there at the graveyard to die in his place.  If it hadn't been for
Harry's well-timed Expelliarmus and the resulting Priori Incantatem
effect between their wands, that would have been the end of Harry.

Well, Voldemort and Dumbledore might understand it, but I'm not sure I
do!  In any case, whatever Voldemort did in using Harry's blood to
reconstitute his body, it seems to have nullified Lily's lingering
protection, and it now allows Harry and Voldemort to engage in "mortal
combat".  Is that a good thing?  Perhaps it is, because now we are
closer to an end...

I believe you are correct in your suggestion that Dumbledore's added
blood protection is still in effect, and so at least Voldemort can't
sneak up on Harry while he is under 17 and living at Privet Drive.

The protection Dumbledore gave at Hogwarts is probably gone now that
Dumbledore is gone, so it would seem there's no longer any advantage
to living there.

Note the trouble Voldemort had to go to in order to get Harry at the
graveyard, thus removing him from Dumbledore's protections and from
the blood protections of Privet Drive.  It seems he really had no
other option than to get Harry out of protection, to have a chance at
killing him.

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Peggy Wilkins
enlil65 at gmail.com