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[Harry Potter] If Tom Riddle (say his real name!) had just dropped baby Harry into a full bathtub to drown, would Lily's accidental protective charm have still caused Riddle's first defeat?

I thought about this because of the evil emperor/adopted son question I asked yesterday.

Apologies if a similar question has already been covered.
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Yes.

Lily's magic wasn't your everyday Charm with specific, logical, predictable effects like mundane technology or a piece of code. It was more raw and primal than that, closer to LotR-style magic. 

Voldemort would've been unable to harm Harry. He wouldn't have been able to touch him. Trying to move him with magic would have just failed. A knife would have broken against his skin or slipped from Voldemort's hand. A Conjured boulder would have popped back out of existence or miraculously missed. Even just leaving him there to starve would have somehow failed. 

Of course, there probably wouldn't have been the same backfire, so Voldemort would still have been around and very possibly won.