Possible flint from OotP?

[Lyn J. Mangiameli]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> wrote:
> Waldo:
> 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)
> > 
<snip> 
> Pippin:
> I think it's only the Godric's Hollow escape that counts in 
> Book One. The other two times, Harry did not defeat Voldemort
> by his own power. He was rescued, first by Firenze and then
> by Dumbledore himself. 
> 
> Pippin

Now Lyn:
But defeat or rescue, he escaped LV's harmful intent. DD directly references the number of 
times Harry has been able to "escape." It's just another example of JKR's sloppiness, which 
I hope she adds to her "must edit" list.

There is another tidbit in the DD comments that Waldo references. DD says the neither 
Harry's or Neville's parents "ever achieved" an escape from LV. This seems to make clear 
that whatever the two couples seperate three acts of defiance were, they never involved a 
direct confrontation of any magnitude with LV. Kind of puts a limit on just how strong a 
defiance was involved, IMO.