But Harry’s memory didn’t include Voldemort casting Avada Kedavra on Harry. That memory is neutral WRT the “rebounded Avada Kedavra” hypothesis.
Also, no part of a rebuttal to your comment, but re-reading the scene, what’s with this line?:
And the boy in the crib saw it, the eyes, those two crimson eyes, seeming to glow bright red, to blaze like miniature suns, filling Harry’s whole vision as they locked to his own -
In canon? In MoR eye-contact has happened a bunch of times since Harry got good enough to detect Legilimency, it’s just been the usual dramatic device.
Didn’t Moaning Myrtle recount something similar about her own death in canon, in which the glowing eyes were the Basilisk’s?
It’d be funny if the rock Dumbledore gives Harry were actually a piece of petrified:
a) James (and Dumbledore knows)
b) Voldemort (and he doesn’t)
c) Harry himself (and the scenario for that would be ridiculous).
But Harry’s memory didn’t include Voldemort casting Avada Kedavra on Harry. That memory is neutral WRT the “rebounded Avada Kedavra” hypothesis.
Also, no part of a rebuttal to your comment, but re-reading the scene, what’s with this line?:
legilimency of some sort? or simply dramatic license. I don’t remember any example of that particular action being pointed out that wasn’t leglimency.
In canon? In MoR eye-contact has happened a bunch of times since Harry got good enough to detect Legilimency, it’s just been the usual dramatic device.
Didn’t Moaning Myrtle recount something similar about her own death in canon, in which the glowing eyes were the Basilisk’s?
It’d be funny if the rock Dumbledore gives Harry were actually a piece of petrified: a) James (and Dumbledore knows) b) Voldemort (and he doesn’t) c) Harry himself (and the scenario for that would be ridiculous).
Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase “your father’s rock”, doesn’t it?