[the_old_crowd] Possible flint from HBP (was OotP)?

[Constance Vigilance]

--- Waldo Glatisant wrote:

> possible flint from
> HP5?

> Dumbledore to Harry: "... He saw himself in you
> before
> he had ever seen you, and in marking you with that
> scar, he did not kill you, as he intended, but gave
> you powers, and a future, which have fitted you to
> escape him not once, *but four times* so far --
> something that neither your parents, nor Neville's
> parents, ever achieved." (OP37)
> 
> Now my question is this: Is it *four* or *five*
> times?
> 
> 
> Arguably, Harry escaped LV:
> 
> (1) in October, c1981 - Godric's Hollow
> (2) In the PS, when LV was sticking out of the back
> of
> Quirrell's head and demanding that Quirrell kill
> Harry. Seems to me that would count as facing LV and
> escaping - Hey, for that matter he also faced LV and
> escaped while in the dark forest. 
> (3) CoS: Does LV not attempt to kill Harry with the
> basilisk? Doesn't Harry escape? 
> (4) GoF - graveyard scene: I'd say this one counts
> for
> sure, no?
> (5) OotP - DoM scene: The speech from DD occurs
> after
> this scene. 
> 
> Thus, it seems to me that DD would have been more
> accurate in saying that Harry had faced LV and
> escaped
> 5 or 6 times.  I do apologize if this is old, old
> news. 
> 

CV: I suppose one could argue that the escape in CoS
didn't really count because that wasn't LV, only
Reconstituted!Horcrux!LV. Although, as you point out,
it does seem a bit flinty.

CV, wondering if LV knows that his horcruxes could
gain a life of their own, re: Diary!Tom. Having your
horcruxes come back to challenge your Ultimate Evil
Supremacy - oh, the things you don't find in the Evil
Overlord instruction manual. http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around 
http://mail.yahoo.com