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[davewitley]

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> As usual, I had the Sight of a Trelawney, but I'm pleased with my 
> divination powers on two points.  One, when JKR said we should be 
> asking why Voldemort survived the rebounded AK at Godric's Hollow, 
I 
> thought, we know already:  he told us in the graveyard that he'd 
taken 
> steps toward immortality.  Sure, we didn't know the mechanism 
until now 
> (and a very cool mechanism it is--shades of whatsisname in Prydain 
who 
> put his soul into a fragment of bone), but I never could 
understand why 
> she was making a big mystery about it, and still don't.  

Well, I'm a little disappointed in the Horcrux thing for this very 
reason.  I don't see how we could really have figured it out from 
what we had in the previous books.  Indeed I don't know of anyone 
who did.

In fact, my whole line of reasoning was that therefore Voldemort's 
remarks about the steps he had taken must be a red herring 
(supported by the fact that in GOF he doesn't know *which* steps had 
worked, and that Dumbledore stresses that Voldemort doesn't 
understand the really important things in magic).

David