That damn blood protection thing

[fishinginthemud.livejournal.com]

My sincere apologies if this has been addressed before, but I haven't found anything on it yet.

We are told that Harry survives the Killing Curse from Voldemort because Voldemort is now a "blood relative" and Harry can't be harmed in the presence of his "blood relatives." But at that point, hasn't the "blood protection" spell already ended, since Harry is now 17 and no longer lives with the Dursleys? Have I missed something?

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[darth-eldritch.livejournal.com]

LMAO!!!

That entire protection thing wasn't clear to me.

[ladyhadhafang.livejournal.com]

Yeah.

Did Lily's sacrifice create some sort of shield or something? *Head Explodes trying to "get" it*

What the hell... :/

[darth-eldritch.livejournal.com]

I... think it did... if I read it right.

[ladyhadhafang.livejournal.com]

*Sighs*

Yeah...you fail worldbuilding forever, JKR. DX

[darth-eldritch.livejournal.com]

LOL!

[ladyhadhafang.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :D

[sharaz-jek.livejournal.com]

I think Lily's sacrifice acted as a force field against Voldemort's first AK (would it have worked against any attack or just against Voldemort?) made Harry's skin caustic (because as we all know the best way to symbolise protective sacrificial love is as something that burns people alive; and based on its original effect shouldn't it have merely acted as a shield rather than a way of causing a horrifying death?), and then Dumbledore somehow did something with it that somehow made Harry protected in some way from Voldemort as long as he was at Privet Drive (which, given that Voldemort was smoke and vapour in Albania while Harry was growing up there was an incredibly useless protection) and... yeah.

Do you need a poorly-explained mechanism to both protect your hero and cause agonising pain to someone who may well have been unwillingly coerced into serving and hosting a malevolent sociopathic wraith? Call now for Lily Potter's Patented Power of Love (TM), at a very reasonable price of someone who loves you enough to betray a Dark Lord and your life's breath! Guaranteed to do whatever the writer demands, or your money back*!

*Ways to bring back the dead include portraits or ghosts or the Resurrection Stone or Priori Incantatem or special blood-Horcruxes or barely tolerable chapters in Limbo where you have to praise the hero to the skies for what feels like years or...

[ladyhadhafang.livejournal.com]

XD

That's freaking awesome. :3

[charlottehywd.livejournal.com]

This needs to be sold by either the ghost of Billie Mays, or that Sham-wow guy.

[ladyhadhafang.livejournal.com]

What a tweest!

/Old meme is freaking old. XD

Lily's Caustic Love Protection

[oneandthetruth.livejournal.com]

I think Lily's sacrifice acted as a force field against Voldemort's first AK...made Harry's skin caustic (because as we all know the best way to symbolise protective sacrificial love is as something that burns people alive)...

Considering the extremely negative opinion many HP fans have of "St. Lily," that actually makes a lot of sense. Her "love" for Snape certainly had a caustic effect on his life, making him eat his heart, soul, autonomy, and self-respect out with guilt and remorse, and burning away any chance he had of having even a decent life, let alone a satisfying one. Her "love" burned Petunia, too, when Lily used her magic to bully her older sister, thus turning Petunia against the magical world entirely. That set Harry up to be burned by Petunia with abuse when he got dumped on her doorstep.

The fact is, if Lily had used her magic to help Petunia rather than harm her, Petunia probably wouldn't have been hostile to magic, and Harry would probably have been treated pretty decently by the Dursleys. He might even have been treated well because he was the last remnant of Petunia's beloved sister, not a nasty reminder of that disgusting magical world that destroyed their relationship and made Petunia feel inferior.

Lily Potter: the woman whose love is a toxic, caustic substance that destroys everyone it touches.