[HPforGrownups] Harry's alleged debt to Dumbledore and Snape WAS: Re: Chapter Discussion

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 190866

AllaL
> Alla: Ok, yes, makes sense, so what you are saying is that after blood 
> transfusion in GoF Voldemort himself could not touch Harry at all, not 
> just while he is in Dursleys? 

Bart:
     Before the blood transfusion, Morty couldn't touch Harry at all. 
After it, he could touch Harry, but he could not personally harm Harry 
(not that he couldn't just say, "Hey, Bella! I'm giving you the honor of 
casting the fatal AK!" once he figured it out).

Alla:
> Say you are hundred percent correct in describing what happened. How 
> does it translate in *Dumbledore* saving Harry? In other words, are 
> you saying that Dumbledore knew that Triwizard Tournament would result 
> in blood transfusion? If so, that makes Dumbledore even more evil in 
> my eyes. More importantly, where is the proof that Dumbledore actually 
> knew that Harry taking Avada and going to Kings Cross will result in 
> Unhorcruxing him?

Bart:
     Nope. But note that DD didn't suspect the existence of a horcrux 
until the events of COS, when he realized that not only had Morty made a 
horcrux, but that he had made multiple horcruxes. This was when he also 
suspected that Harry was an inadvertent horcrux. So, DD had to figure 
out how to save Harry while destroying Morty. When the events at the end 
of GOF took place, DD realized a method by which Morty could be 
destroyed and Harry could be saved at the same time; hence the gleam of 
triumph. During OOP, he was trying to set up the resistance to Morty, 
but he realized that the Mortysoul was a two-way street; hence his 
desire for Harry to learn Occlumancy. It was only luck that Morty found 
the love within Harry so painful that he couldn't use the Mortysoul as a 
weapon against Harry which meant that Harry didn't have to learn 
Occlumancy, after all.

     Bart