[HPFGU-Movie] Foreshadowing of 6 and 7

[GulPlum]

At 12:44 15/06/04 , banovaz wrote:

>First Post, so lets hope i do this right

Welcome. looks fine from here. ;-)

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>When Harry has righteous anger  - he can do amazing things

To be fair, that isn't something this film has introduced. it's been around 
all along in the books (e.g. getting onto the school roof at the beginning 
of PS/SS), and in the movies (e.g. the re-appearing glass in PS/SS).

>He may not be able to cast an unforgiveable with his righteous anger
>as per Bellatrix Lestrange's observation in OOPT , but in this movie
>and in canon he can cast a patronus that drives away 50 + dementors
>and he can blow up a frightful aunt.

I like your use of "righteous anger", which is exactly what gets Harry 
going, but an implication of the OotP significance is that Harry is unable 
to perform from hate.

The Shrieking Shack scene in this respect underlines that as well - when he 
has Sirius at his mercy and has as much hatred and anger in his heart that 
anyone can muster, he freezes.

And that is the big difference between Harry and Voldemort: whilst Lord 
Thingy is primarily moved and motivated by all the basest human instincts, 
Harry is capable of his best when acting on the most noble. Whilst 
Voldemort is at his most powerful when at his most hateful, Harry is weakest.

Harry's feats of non-deliberate magic as a child are all a defence 
mechanism: they all come out when he's being bullied, and whilst he could 
do the bullies some serious harm, all he ends up doing is scaring them. 
Harry is (thus far) simply incapable of powerful offensive magic, because 
he doesn't have it in him to summon the base feelings required to do it. 
His most impressive feat to date, which is recognised as such by pretty 
much everyone - the Patronus - is purely defensive, and a personification 
of all that is noble.

And, of course, the most significant thing about The Boy Who Lived is that 
he survived through an act of personal sacrifice, the most noble action 
anyone can take in pretty much any culture on earth.

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GulPlum AKA Richard, seriously threatening to go off-topic for this list