Neville facing LV and Peter's Hand - Questions

[Annette]

No: HPFGUIDX 172648

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "carodave92" <carodave92 at ...> 
wrote:
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> I read the book quickly (had to pass it along to impatient family 
> members!) and maybe didn't read these parts clearly...but...
> 
> How did Neville escape the fire unscathed when LV put the sorting hat 
> on his head and it burst into flames?  I expected him to at least be 
> burned and scarred when he emerged (I am assuming that he performed 
> the spell to turn flames into a tickling sensation, like the witch in 
> Harry's history book in PS/SS, but that isn't mentioned).
> 

> 
> Carodave

The answer to this is on p.591 (UK book) When H & V go head to head.
... " I was ready to die to stop you hurting these people."
    " But you did not!"
    "- I meant to and thats what did it.I've done what my mother did. 
haven't you noticed how none of the spells you put on them are binding? 
you can't torture them. You can't touch them ..."

Sorry, don't have canon proof to why Peter's hand turned on him, just 
conjecture that evil does as evil-made.

Cariad.
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