Great Essay by Mirrormere on Mugglenet

[rattlesnakeroot]

Mirrormere from Chamber of Secrets Forum has had an essay posted on Mugglenet.

The Flaw in the PlanHer thesis is that Dumbledore had two plans: first, the "Active" horcrux-destroying plan in which Harry would die but remain alive thanks to the magical blood link with Voldemort; and second, the back-up or "Latent" plan in which Snape would become

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[kamion]

A good but indeed complicated essay, that eeds reading a few times.
It explains quite a few questions I had when finished DH the first time when I feld a bit cheated by a cheap fanfickish trick.

but still I doesn't answered my main question:
when the protection Harry had due to his mother's sacrifice expired at his 17th birthday, how could he be tethered by blood to life ( Dumbledore was quite happy Voldy took Harry's blood in GOF) by that a force that came from the same source.
Are these two different kinds of forces and protection?
I would think that when the source is depleted at the start of the book, it cannot be active at the end.

[ms_arithmancer]

I thought the protection that Harry has at Petunia's was something that came not only from Lily's sacrifice, but also hinged on Petunia's choice. Since she took him into her house and raised him. That this particular protection expired at the wizard adult age of 17 made some sense, since Harry no longer needed a guardian at that age.

So I think while both protections, the one at the Dursleys and the one that comes from Voldemort's blood, come from the same ultimate source (Lily's sacrifice), they were activated differently. The former ended not because the magic of Lily's sacrifice was depleted, but because Petunia's guardianship ended with Harry's childhood.

Elder Wand

[anonymous]

Um, Harry wasn't under the Cloak when Voldemort took the wand from Dumbledore's tomb. He watched that from the Horcrux-scar connection he had to Voldemort's head.

Re: Elder Wand

[rattlesnakeroot]

Whoops - you're right! Thanks. I'll have to edit that.