There's Something Special About Harry...

[cassandraclaire at mail.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 11537

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., foxmoth at q... wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., cassandraclaire at m... wrote:
> 
> 	Odd that you should choose Batman for your analogy, Cassie, 
since 
> Batman is the one popular superhero who has absolutely no 
superhuman 
> powers. Zip. Nada. He is simply a superbly conditioned and
> intelligent human being, not an extraterrestrial like Superman or a 
> radioactive mutant like Spiderman or a supernatural creature like 
> Wonder Woman.
> 	As to Super-Harry, I think it does matter whether his extra 
powers  derive from Voldemort. First, because I think it will create 
a moral  dilemma about using them, and second because I think such 
powers are  unlikely to survive Voldie's demise. 

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All right, all right! I admit that I did not recall that Batman 
didn't have any special powers, since I have never had the slightest 
interest in Batman. *shakes head* Now that I have been Firmly 
Reminded By Many People, I promise never to mix up my superheroes 
again. I shall try in future to compare Harry only to bona fide 
readioactive mutants, not regular joes like that Batman guy.

As to Harry's special powers deriving from Voldemort, my point wasn't 
that the origin of his powers doesn't matter *overall* or impact 
Harry's decision about using those powers, but that it doesn't matter 
to the sentence "Harry has special powers." He's still got 'em. (For 
now.) As for his powers not surviving Voldie's demise, that had never 
occured to me. *shrugs* Maybe they will, maybe they won't. What about 
his non-Voldie related powers, like the ability to resist the 
Imperius Curse and whatever it was that rebounded the Killing curse 
on Voldemort in the first place? *holds head* Oh, too much to think 
about.

Cassie