Dumbledore/ and Voldemort and Harry

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> wrote:
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>> As for the blood:
> "But if Voldemort used the Killing Curse, " Harry started again, "and nobody died for me this time -- how can I be alive?"
> "I think you know," said Dumbledore. "Think back. Remember what he did, in his ignorance, in his greed and his cruelty."
> Harry thought <snip> Then the answer rose to his lips easily, without effort.
> "He took my blood," said Harry.
> "Precisely!" said Dumbledore."He took your blood and rebuilt his living body with it! Your blood in his veins, Harry, Lily's protection inside both of you! He tethered you to life while he lives!"
> DH ch 35
> 
> Lily's  protection kept Harry from dying when Voldemort attacked him the first time. It kept Harry from being touched by Voldemort, and, thanks to Dumbledore's enchantments, from being touched by Voldemort or any of his servants while Harry lived in the house where his mother's blood dwelt.  From the moment Voldemort took it into his body, he could touch Harry, but it kept Harry from dying while Voldemort lived -- but it had never protected Harry from being hurt, as the scar on Harry's forehead shows. 


Alla:

I am (after pretty much giving up initially) only trying to understand what happened after Voldemort took Harry's blood, or even more specifically, what does taking Harry's blood in means for Voldemort and Harry connection. I get that Lily's protection kept Harry from dying in Godric Hollow. Bart seemed to argue that Voldemort taking Harry's blood in means that Voldemort could not harm him, or did I misunderstand and he could harm him as much as he wanted as long as he was not killing Harry? How does scar on Harry's forehead show anything if Voldemort did not take Harry's blood in yet when he was a baby? 

If Voldemort having Harry's blood in meant for him that he can touch Harry, but cannot kill him, doesn't intent count? Shouldn't he not be able to torture Harry because surely he was torturing Harry with intent to kill? I think this is very murky issue personally, By the way, thank goodness for movie at least making the Elder wand issue very clear for me, I think JKR should have hired them to clarify blood issue too lol. Now thats my only confusion left, I am at least clear in my head how the stick was changing masters lol.