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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I believe you are mistaken in your comments on blood. The terms used in the text are common phrases used in English to indicate genetic relationship. They all imply that the protection on Harry is because of the love of his mother and his acceptance by his mother's sister.
To suggest that the magic of the protection is literally only in the liquid flowing in his arteries and veins, rather than in his whole person, is to mis-read the book because you so want to make it match what you want it to match.
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Good question!
It may not be clear from my culled notes, but there are
two references to blood.
1) Blood relationship, as you refer to in your post.
Dumbledore used this relationship to fashion protection for Harry at Privet Drive. As long as Harry called that home, he was safe there.
2) Harry's actual, physical blood flowing through his veins.
Lily's sacrifice imbues Harry's actual blood with magical protection.
Prior to the end of
Goblet of Fire, Voldemort could not touch Harry without some terrible reaction (Voldemort-as-Quirrell, for example). In the graveyard at the end, Voldemort reconstructs his physical body, with one ingredient being Harry's own blood. After taking Harry's blood and making it part of his "new" body, he touches Harry without consequence.
Here's Harry explaining to Dumbledore (wait, isn't that backwards?).
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Originally Posted by Harry Potter
"He said my blood would make him stronger than if he'd used someone else's," Harry told Dumbledore. "He said the protection my -- my mother left in me -- he'd have it, too. And he was right -- he could touch me without hurting himself, he touched my face."
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Harry's physical blood, flowing through his veins, was imbued with the magical protection that resulted from his mother's loving sacrifice.
-Pie