Harry, impossible to kill?

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 177695

zanooda:
> I believe that LV's curse didn't rebound in the forest. If it did, 
> Harry wouldn't have "died" and the soul-bit wouldn't be destroyed.
> What happened in the forest seems very different from the events in
> GH, when Harry wasn't hurt, but LV became Vapor!Mort. I think that 
> the AK worked all right in the forest.
> 
> As for why, I only can guess that the curse didn't rebound because 
> Harry himself wanted to die. OK, "wanted" is the wrong word here,
> but he *intended* to die, it was his choice to die, he didn't fight
> for his life, so the blood protection didn't protect him this time.

> But I still don't understand what happened to LV in this case. If
> he wasn't hit by the rebounding curse, why was he knocked out? Why
> did he also had a near-death experience? It could be explained by 
> the loss of the soul-bit, but then, why nothing of the sort 
> happened to him when Nagini died? She was also a living Horcrux and
> I think LV had a link with her as well.


Jen: I'm a novice in these discussions, decided it's time to take the 
plunge.;)  I read it all pretty simply and know there's a gap in my 
logic somewhere but I'm not sure where:  The AK killed the soul 
piece, almost killed Harry in the process, that caused the blood 
protection to kick in, and the blood connection is why Voldemort went 
with Harry to his near-death experience.  I understood that the AK 
didn't rebound because it 'found' part of LV inside Harry to hit 
instead.

So Harry wasn't protected from LV killing him in other ways, but LV 
taking his blood would protect him after he turned 17 if Voldemort 
attempted to AK Harry and Harry chose not to defend himself.  Then it 
would kick in because of his sacrifice.