"Incalculable power"

[zanooda2]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

> Carol, who now thinks that both meanings ("very great" and 
> "unpredictable") are included in the meaning


zanooda:

Thanks :-). How about this one then: in "Bathilda's Secret", when Harry sees Godric's Hollow events through LV's eyes, there is a sentence: "The child had not cried all this time: he could stand, clutching the bars of his cot, and he looked up into the intruder's face with a kind of bright interest..." (p.344-345 and p.281). 

I don't understand what "could stand" means here. Does it mean that he could stand in general (like "he was old enough to be able to stand") or that he "managed to stand up" in this particular case. Thanks again to everybody :-).