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Message: <blockquote data-quote="painandgreed" data-source="post: 3774922" data-attributes="member: 24969">About the extra blood. I think that would come in with the extra phylactories. As part of the 4th level spell that would return the spirit to life, some of the phylactories must be used or there is otherwise a connection, and one gains a suitable template. Or perhaps living things are easier to turn into such phylactories, and in those cases, blood is required and template is aquired. Or the spell brings you back to life but you are still horribly scarred as the necromatic creature you are.Just because somebody could say 'avada kadava' doesn't mean they can cast the spell. They would have to have the knowledge how to do it and then the will and desire to do so. Thus to be effective, his mother would have to have wanted to kill Voldemorte more than save her son. Being a good person not prone to murderous rages or pratice in the dark arts, her curse probably would have failed anyway. Also, despite his downfall, you-know-who was always presented as a supurb wizard. Very powerful and very skilled. She probably wasn't up to his level even in a fair fight. This is one of the reasons why Lord V could be defeated by harry. Nobody, including V, ever thought that Harry was of equal skill, and he wasn't. He always seemed to win by sheer circumstance or luck. The thing is, and I only think Dumbledore had figured it out, that nature, especially a magical nature, has a way of making 'luck' fulfill it's place. It was 'luck' that Harry's mother died in a manner that would protect him from V. It was 'luck' that Harry would end up with the twin of V's wand. It was 'luck' that harry would defeat Draco and be the wand's true owner. It was 'luck' that Harry would be willing to give his life and therefore survive the curse. Face it, somebody upstairs didn't like Lord Voldemort and had rigged all the cards before the game was even played, because V didn't understand the more advanced rules of magic....or something like that anyway, IMHO.</blockquote>

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