Babbling on on Avada Kadavra mechanics

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 172471

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, doug rogers <dougsamu at ...> wrote:
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> On Jul-24-07, at 7:50 PM, HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com wrote:
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> > bamf:
> >
> > It's also WHY Harry survived the AK. Voldie killed
> > the piece of his soul that was in Harry, instead of
> > Harry, IMHO.
> 
> doug:
> 
> Hmm This twigged something for me. It would seem there was a fifty /  
> fifty chance of the Avada Kadavra taking one or the other soul. 

Valky replies:
Actually no I don't think there was a fifty fifty chance, it was more
like 80/20 in favour of Harry, I'd say, because the blood that kept
him tethered to life was Harry's own it didn't belong to the horcrux.
The chances were much greater that Harry himself would survive as of
Voldemort stealing his blood. 


> Nope, nope. I think I see.
> 
> Avada Kadavra takes the Life, not the Soul. So it was Harry's  
> sacrificial state of mind - for the sake of others. So as Lily's  
> sacrifice protected Harry, and Harry's sacrifice protected others...  
> his Death separated the two souls he harboured, and it was because he  
> was Master of Death, that he didn't actually die... (?)

I also thought that it was because he was Master of Death at the time,
but a second read made me think again, it wasn't that. Harry himself
*was* immortal at the moment of his death and I think the Hallows may
have been involved in that to a point but Dumbledore seemed to think
(so I'm going along with his guess) that the strongest magic acting in
this uncharted realm was the prescence of Harry's blood in Voldemort
effectively entwining their living being so deeply that Harry could
not die without taking Voldemort with him, and Voldemort vice versa
could not live without taking Harry back. So in essence they stopped
each other at the point of death in a push-me-pull-you for that brief
magical moment. The blood had a lot to do with Harry surviving, his
mastery of death I think only came into play in how he experienced
that short time with Dumbledore beyond the veil compared to how
Voldemort experienced it. 

Valky