[the_old_crowd] Re: Possible flint from OotP?

[JoAnna Wahlund]

By that logic, the DoM scene in OotP also doesn't count.

On 8/24/05, pippin_999 <foxmoth at ...> 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)
> > 
> > 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. 
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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