Movie: Harry's Wand in the Forbidden Forest and Big-V's Death

[nikkalmati]

No: HPFGUIDX 191141



> Geoff:
> May I quote the whole of the section you mention because I think that perhaps 
> it sheds a slightly different light:
> 
> '"You won't be killing anyone else tonight," said Harry as they circled and 
> stared into each other's eyes, green into red. "You won't be able to kill any 
> of them, ever again. Don't you get it? I was ready to die to stop you hurting 
> these people-"
> 
> "But you did not!"
> 
> "-I meant to and that's what did it. I've done what my mother did. They're 
> protected from you. 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. You don't 
> learn from your mistakes, Riddle, do you?"'
> 
> (DH "The Flaw in the Plan" p.591 UK edition)
> 
> I read this as being the situation after King's Cross. Effectively, Harry is saying 
> that after he did what his mother did, Voldemort's power has been affected. 
> This 'you can't touch them' is a future thing - it is now the new order of things. 
> Take your instance of McGonagall, Slughorn and Shacklebolt being thrown 
> through the air. Although it speaks of flailing and writhing; it does not say 
> in agony. This is what anyone in that situation would do reflexively. We know 
> that Voldemort did this in absolute fury and I would expect him to have 
> attempted an Avada Kedavra. But we know  by p.596 of the UK edition that 
> at least two of them are able to join wholeheartedly in the wave of 
> celebration after the duel is over, having suffered little or no after effects.
>
Nikkalmati

I know that is what Harry says, but it still doesn't do much for me.  The whole book has been leading up to Harry willingly sacrificing his life for the wizarding world (leading to a comparison with the sacrifice of Christ which saved the souls of everyone before and after) and this is the result?  This tempering of LV's power?  Not the destruction of evil or the protection of all good witches and wizards from all the bad guys - just a moderation of LV's effectiveness?  He can't do anything really, really bad.  If his spells are affected, how can he AV himself?  

Nikkalmati