[HPFGU-Movie] Foreshadowing of 6 and 7

[clshannon at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/15/04 5:29:48 AM, dbanova at bigpond.net.au writes:


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

It's interesting your post brought up the wandless magic Harry performs in 
POA. I was just rereading the opening part with Aunt Marge last night to verify 
something else and noticed how, after he inflates her, he rushes to the 
cupboard under the stairs to retrieve his trunk and the door blows open when he 
approaches it. JKR describes it as blowing up quite forcefully in his wake, so he 
was definitely doing a lot of wandless magic, along with the actual inflation 
of Marge ;-)

If I recall correctly, the description in the first book of wandless magic 
was about how younger wizards and witches, before attending Hogwarts and getting 
a wand, sometimes make things happen without realizing it, esp. while angry. 
Hagrid mentions this to Harry when he first meets him. I always got the 
impression that it was sort of uncontrolled because of their young age and the lack 
of training or the focus of a wand. This   may be true, but I think that in 
Harry's case, his wandless magic may be something he can learn to channel and 
control. Maybe most young kids forget the talent or lose it once they get a 
wand.   However, I did notice in the movie of POA, Lupin uses wandless magic to 
open the trunk with the dementor in it during the training session with Harry (I 
don't know if Lupin does things like this in the book), so maybe other 
wizards and witches can harness this power. Certainly Dumbledore has ;-)

Anyway, I also thought it interesting that one review I read of the   movie 
said something about how we get hints regarding how powerful a wizard Harry 
really is or will become, something that wasn't apparent in previous films. I 
wondered about that reviewer since I don't think JKR has really hinted at any 
difference in Harry's actual power - after all, his uniqueness is because he 
'survived' a direct killing curse, not because he exhibited any super power ;-)

I seem to   be rambling again ;-)
Cindy


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