Re Harry beating Voldemort in the Graveyard: was Re: Snape's Psychology: WAS: More thoughts on the Elder Wand subplot - Owner?

[Cyril A Fernandes]

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Cyril here:

Snipping most of this post as I only want to comment on one aspect


Montavilla47:
I don't think giving Harry the wand back was such a stupid move.
Voldemort wanted to show his followers that Harry wasn't a threat.
He needed to reinforce the idea that he was the greatest Dark Lord 
in existence--an image that must have suffered when he got 
defeated by a baby!

And Harry shouldn't have been a threat. He was a fourteen-year-old
wizard. Yes, he was a champion, but only with a lot of help. I'm sure
the fourteen-year-old Tom could have wiped the floor with Harry, so
why not the seventy-year-old Voldemort?

The only reason Harry made it out of the graveyard that night was
because of a fluke. His wand shared a core with Voldemort's. Of
course, if Harry had been less magically powerful than he was, the
golden bead thingy would have been forced into his wand and we
would have seen a couple stunning spells and some red flare sparks
instead of the shades of James, Lily, Bertha, Frank, and Cedric.

But it was still a fluke and Voldemort had no way of knowing 
that it would happen.



Cyril here:

IMO, the one reason I believe that Harry won this war of the brother wands was because of the Horcrux in his scar. I do not believe that Harry was in any way more magically more powerful than LV. However, the Horcrux has self-preservation capability that is extremely powerful, and would have given Harry the required power to push the beads LV's way. I also believe that it had a role to play in Vernon suddenly getting a jolt of electricity when he's trying to apparently strangle Harry (I forget which book this occured in). 

I know that this is not consistent as a protection - for there are numerous examples of Harry being well defeated, (such as the Battle with Snape, or Draco smashing his nose in HBP) - but possibly as Harry's life was not threatened in these situations - the Horcrux was also not in self-preservation mode. In both the situations mentioned above - in the Battle with LV and the 'apparent' strangling by Vernon - this mode may have kicked in.

The other instance when Harry was in grave danger was in PoA when he was being attacked by the Dementors by the lake. Here, again either the Horcurx was not in self-preservation mode as Harry would not have died from the Dementor's kiss - or possibly it was even hiding as it may have been afraid of being sucked out itself - not sure if it is immune to Dementors.

JMO,
Cyril.

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