Harry Potter and the Triangle Prophecy - Sahits

“I didn’t say it makes up for it. I said there was a good thing about all this. Okay, not a goodthing precisely--more like something that’s not awful.”“Well, that’s not exactly the same, it it? What the hell is it?”“Well--when he performs this spell--or when anyone performs it--he gives up a part of hispower and you get it. The idea is--since he wants to use you to do things, the extra powermakes it more likely you’ll succeed. The power leaves him. That’s why he wanted yourparents to agree to raise you to be his servant; if they didn’t, and he put the Obedience Charmon you and then starting giving you orders when you were older--if you didn’t know aboutwhat would happen by refusing to do as you’re told and you didn’t feel any loyalty to him--you could just say ‘no’ and drop dead. If that were to happen, all of the power he’d put intoyou would just die with you--he wouldn’t get that back.”Malfoy looked very grumpy. “That’s hardly what I’d call ‘good.’”“Well, you do have a little more power than most wizards. Some of his power went into me,too, when he tried to kill me and the curse rebounded. That’s why I can speak Parseltongue.But my parents wouldn’t promise me to him, so he didn’t put the Obedience Charm on me.He tried to kill me instead.”“Extra power. I don’t feel bloody extra powerful....”Harry shrugged. “Maybe you’ll find that some advanced magic you’ve never tried beforeseventh year just comes naturally to you. Who knows? And you already know how toApparate. If you found it fairly simple to learn to do, the extra power he gave you could be apossible reason.” But then he remembered yet another thing about the Obedience Charm.“Oh, erm, there’s one more thing...”Malfoy sighed. “Something else?”“Yeah. You, um--you can’t cast a spell on Voldemort that will hurt him.”“And that’s good?”“I didn’t say this one was good. You can’t put Avada Kedavra on him, or Cruciatus or HaraKiri. If there’s the possibility that he could hurt himself falling if you were to stun him, youcouldn’t do that either.”“What do you mean, I can’t?”“You just can’t. If you aim your wand at him and try, it will just veer off at the last minuteand the spell will hit something--or someone--else. If another person is standing nearby, itcould be very dangerous. If you were in a situation where you needed to hurt him, you’d haveto do it indirectly, or without magic at all. If the spell wouldn’t hurt him, you could castsomething on him like the Impediment Curse. As long as it doesn’t mean stopping him in themiddle of a busy motorway with a large lorry bearing down on him. Then that probablywouldn’t work either.”Malfoy stared down at the table again, then up at Harry. “Is that it?”12