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      • The Dark Lord was able to figure out how Lily’s sacrifice residually protected Harry so that he couldn’t touch him, and he also knew of the protection that the sacrifice cast originally to shield Harry from the Killing Curse.
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  2. Jul 31, 2018 · The Dark Lord was able to figure out how Lily’s sacrifice residually protected Harry so that he couldn’t touch him, and he also knew of the protection that the sacrifice cast originally to shield Harry from the Killing Curse.

  3. Nov 12, 2017 · The only reason that anyone would, would be to go after Harry. As Voldemort wanted to kill Harry personally and had no way of doing so in the Dursleys house until his mothers protection wore out, Voldemort saw no reason to go after them. After all Voldemort knew where Harry was.

  4. Sep 7, 2018 · Dumbledore explains this to Harry - Lily gave Harry a lingering protection by dying to save him, and this is why Dumbledore chose to use the charm that protected him while at the Dursleys’ house. “You would be protected by an ancient magic of which he knows, which he despises, and which he has always, therefore, underestimated – to his cost.

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    When Lord Voldemort went to kill an infant Harry Potter in order to subvert the prophecy about the coming of a champion who would defeat him, Harry's mother, Lily Potter, stood in his way. Having willingly sacrificed her life in order to protect her infant son, Harry was placed under magical protection, so that when Voldemort cast the Killing Curse...

    In order for the protection to form, the would-be killer must give the victim the option to live, but the victim must consciously and willingly choose death. This is why James Potter's death didn't confer magical protection on Lily and Harry in 1981; as Voldemort was set upon killing James and thus never gave him an opportunity to choose to save hi...

    Another defensive effect of sacrificial protection bound the beneficiary to life when his or her blood was transferred to another person as long as that person lived. This was seen when Harry cast the counter-charm and suffered a Killing Curse again, but survived. However, if the blood was transferred to the murderer, then the murderer would be abl...

    According to J. K. Rowling, this kind of magic is very un-scientific, and that there was no "Elder Wand + Lily's Blood = Assured Survival" formula. It was ultimately the choices that Harry and Vold...
    It is evidenced that people under sacrificial protection could be protected or protect themselves from the Killing Curse using Shield Charms, as Harry used them to protect his friends and allies fr...
    It's unknown if anyone employed by or affiliated with the murderer can harm a beneficiary. Ginny Weasley is said to have missed death by a inch when Bellatrix Lestrange sends a Killing Curse at her...
    Presumably, it is also possible to place sacrificial protection on one or more people by deliberately shielding the intended victim(s) from any curse or other Dark spell. If this is indeed the case...
  5. Voldemort tries to persuade Harry to give him the stone, which he knows is in Harry’s pocket. He tells Harry to join him rather than resist and be killed like his parents. Harry refuses and Voldemort orders Quirrell to seize Harry.

  6. During the ride, Harry overhears a conversation between Stan and the driver, Ernie Prang, discussing the escape of Sirius Black, and Harry learns that Black was a follower of Voldemort. Black spent twelve years in Azkaban, the wizard prison, after murdering thirteen people with a single curse.

  7. It is true, certainly, that the Dursleys did not keep Harry in their home purely for his own good. They feared the wrath of Dumbledore if they did not – and, later, could possibly have seen him as a shield against Voldemort, a wizard who could defend them if he were to show up.

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