Is there something special about Harr (PS ch.1)

[Dai Evans]

No: HPFGUIDX 11493

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Ebony Elizabeth Thomas" <ebonyink at h...> 
wrote:
> Would someone who does not subscribe to the "There's Something 
Special About 
> Harry" theories please explain away PS/SS Ch. 1?  Even the opening 
seems to 
> foreshadow his unique status.

Why does the opening seem to forshadow Harry's unique status? All it 
shows is that Harry was there at V's downfall. I can well imagine 
that following 11 years of terror the wizarding world is 
indescribably grateful to an end to V and Harry provides a convenient 
figurehead, but in no way does it point to Harry being special. If 
you take evidence from the book entirely at face value, and ignore 
conjecture, then the fall of Voldemort was at Lily Potter's hands. If 
you read further into the text, it does appear that there is more to 
it and that there should be a reason as to why Voldemort lost his 
powers as well as why Harry survived the killing curse.

These both can be, and have been, explained. Lilly saved Harry, and 
Harry defeated V by being defenceless. There has been argument that 
surely these events would have transpired before during V's terror, 
but both to happen together is a longer stretch, and could well have 
only happened with Harry. There is nothing in PS ch.1 to suggest 
the "Super Harry" theory.



Dai