I am inclined to believe that he wasn’t defeated - the body everyone believes to be his had been “burnt to a crisp”, which is inconsistent with everything we know about the Killing Curse.
Assuming, however, that the official account is accurate, the logical next step would be to learn the True Patronus Charm, the only thing he knows which can block a Killing Curse. He might also want to study Harry for lingering magical effects (if any such effect can endure over twelve years), though this is made more difficult by the resonance effect.
Do we know the True Patronus blocks the Killing Curse ? My own interpretation was more than Quirell-Harry magical interaction made both spells to fizzle when they interact (like in canon, where repeatedly Voldemort casting AK on Harry leads to unexpected results), but it wouldn’t work with someone else casting either of the spells.
It’s possible. However, insofar as the True Patronus is powered by the absolute rejection of death, and the Killing Curse is pretty much death in spell form, it is plausible that one could block the other.
I thought the idea was that reality extrudes an error message when they meet, because the Source of Magic can’t decide what should happen. And when this error message meets...whatever causes prophecies...we get Harry’s sense of doom (which seems stronger after his first Patronus casting and then after his recent resolution). I admit that second part confuses me.
Hopefully—since the oldest prophecies we know of supposedly refer to “the end of the world and its magic”—they all result from Ohtori “It” Harry reaching back in time.
It seems unlikely that the DMLA are even aware of such techniques. However, we do not know either way.
Edit: How would anyone have access to Voldemort’s original dental records in the first place? And would they be accurate given all the self-modification he apparently underwent during his time as the Dark Lord (glowing red eyes, serpentine features etc.)?
Assuming the official account is accurate, we have no better explanation for what happened than Rowling’s love shield(though I’ve heard the closely related theory that it was Voldemort breaking his promise to Lily that did it, because the laws of magic somehow enforce contracts). MoR!Voldemort is not the sort to leave it as an enigma, so he’s likely gone looking through obscure magical texts of the sort that he didn’t check pre-death to figure out what had the power to do it. As such, he would presumably have learned the importance of true love and/or honesty, and altered his tactics accordingly, which may be why Quirrelmort is noticeably less evil-acting than Voldemort.
Voldemort didn’t break his promise to Lily—he intended to, presumably, but Lily broke her side first by trying to kill him instead of acting like a willing sacrifice.
First, I am certain that he completely anticipated her response. Desperate pleas aside, she wouldn’t have trusted that he would have really left Harry alive. He gave her a few seconds to think, come to that conclusion, and then she tried to the only option she thought she had left.
Second, the wording was:
“Very well,” said the voice of death, now sounding coldly amused, “I accept the bargain. Yourself to die, and the child to live. Now drop your wand so that I can murder you.”
The only part of the bargain that she had to uphold was dying.
Though I’m not at all certain that the scene is what it looks like.
Maybe the love-magic is the essential tool in Voldemort’s new plan. He’s going to induce Harry to love all of humanity in the same way that Harry’s mother loved him, and then make him die protecting them. They’ll all be unkillable and the Voldemort’s fears of a nuclear apocalypse will never materialize.
“Rule 8: Any technique which is good enough to defeat me once is good enough to learn myself”
Voldemort has been defeated once. What would he do, if he wanted to learn how?
I am inclined to believe that he wasn’t defeated - the body everyone believes to be his had been “burnt to a crisp”, which is inconsistent with everything we know about the Killing Curse.
Assuming, however, that the official account is accurate, the logical next step would be to learn the True Patronus Charm, the only thing he knows which can block a Killing Curse. He might also want to study Harry for lingering magical effects (if any such effect can endure over twelve years), though this is made more difficult by the resonance effect.
Do we know the True Patronus blocks the Killing Curse ? My own interpretation was more than Quirell-Harry magical interaction made both spells to fizzle when they interact (like in canon, where repeatedly Voldemort casting AK on Harry leads to unexpected results), but it wouldn’t work with someone else casting either of the spells.
It’s possible. However, insofar as the True Patronus is powered by the absolute rejection of death, and the Killing Curse is pretty much death in spell form, it is plausible that one could block the other.
I thought the idea was that reality extrudes an error message when they meet, because the Source of Magic can’t decide what should happen. And when this error message meets...whatever causes prophecies...we get Harry’s sense of doom (which seems stronger after his first Patronus casting and then after his recent resolution). I admit that second part confuses me.
Hopefully—since the oldest prophecies we know of supposedly refer to “the end of the world and its magic”—they all result from Ohtori “It” Harry reaching back in time.
Nobody checked for dental history, did they?
It seems unlikely that the DMLA are even aware of such techniques. However, we do not know either way.
Edit: How would anyone have access to Voldemort’s original dental records in the first place? And would they be accurate given all the self-modification he apparently underwent during his time as the Dark Lord (glowing red eyes, serpentine features etc.)?
Wizard ignorance on muggle matters is truly spectacular...
Assuming the official account is accurate, we have no better explanation for what happened than Rowling’s love shield(though I’ve heard the closely related theory that it was Voldemort breaking his promise to Lily that did it, because the laws of magic somehow enforce contracts). MoR!Voldemort is not the sort to leave it as an enigma, so he’s likely gone looking through obscure magical texts of the sort that he didn’t check pre-death to figure out what had the power to do it. As such, he would presumably have learned the importance of true love and/or honesty, and altered his tactics accordingly, which may be why Quirrelmort is noticeably less evil-acting than Voldemort.
Voldemort didn’t break his promise to Lily—he intended to, presumably, but Lily broke her side first by trying to kill him instead of acting like a willing sacrifice.
First, I am certain that he completely anticipated her response. Desperate pleas aside, she wouldn’t have trusted that he would have really left Harry alive. He gave her a few seconds to think, come to that conclusion, and then she tried to the only option she thought she had left.
Second, the wording was:
The only part of the bargain that she had to uphold was dying.
Though I’m not at all certain that the scene is what it looks like.
Maybe the love-magic is the essential tool in Voldemort’s new plan. He’s going to induce Harry to love all of humanity in the same way that Harry’s mother loved him, and then make him die protecting them. They’ll all be unkillable and the Voldemort’s fears of a nuclear apocalypse will never materialize.
That’s a nice idea, but love-magic doesn’t actually make people immortal. It wouldn’t prevent nuclear apocalypse in the long run.
Harry should love all of humanity, and then get killed by a nuclear bomb, thereby giving all of humanity immunity to nuclear bombs.