Rusty wrote:But isn't the mother living blood thing void now for the same reason that Voldemort can know touch Harry without being burned? Maybe he is not going to live at Hogwarts on a permanent basis so he can be protected by Dumbledoore.
i dunno, i don't understand that. this is just me theorizing, but voldemort couldn't touch harry before because his mother's sacrifice left a mark on him. he was full of a power that voldemort despised - love. voldemort gets over this by taking harry's blood. but i think the "protected while he can still call home the place where his mother's blood dwells" is a separate part of the protection. voldemort can touch him outside privet drive, but not while he's still at privet drive. in any case, though, he is protected while he stays at privet drive because dumbledore says so at the end of the fifth book.
also something to think about, voldemort takes harry's blood, so he also takes lily's blood. lily's blood is the one with the protection, and it's the one that is full of love. i dunno what it means, but it's probably very significant. the fact that voldemort can touch harry now means that he's got a little bit of love in him now. maybe