There's Something Special About Harry...

[cassandraclaire at mail.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 11545

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., foxmoth at q... wrote:
> 
Pip: It's a common resolution to stories of this kind...think Frodo 
Baggins  or Taran of Lloyd Alexander's Prydain series, or Bran  in 
Susan   Cooper's The Dark is Rising. They all lose, or choose to give 
up their  supernatural  powers. 

Will, the hero of The Dark Is Rising, doesn't lose his powers at the 
end of the series. Only his companions choose to give theirs up. Will 
stays an Old One, as does Merriman. And Taran never had any powers, 
did he? Only Eilonwy gave hers up. I see your point, though. <g> I 
think it's a fifty-fifty.
> 
 
"How do we know those powers *aren't* Voldie related. Wouldn't it 
> be neat if the power to resist Voldemort's curse came from Voldie 
> himself? At several times in the narrative, a little voice, 
sometimes it's   called a "nasty little voice,' speaks to Harry from 
the back of his  mind. I keep wondering about that voice. Is it 
Harry's subconscious or  could it be the voice of the part of 
Voldemort that got transferred to  Harry, and are they by now 
inextricably entwined? 
> 
*Could* the power to resist Voldemort have been something Voldie-
related? I'm not sure how that would work, since Harry obviously had 
that power before Voldemort ever touched him. As far as we know, of 
course...we really don't know what caused the curse to rebound, so 
obviously this is just theorizing.

Ooh, I remember the nasty little voice in the back of Harry's mind. 
All Harry's ties to the Dark Side are one of my favorite things about 
him. IMHO, they make him a much more interesting hero (and is part of 
the reason I'm mystified by people saying he's boring.) That he 
shares wand cores with Voldemort, has some of his powers, "would have 
done well in Slytherin"...this are all things that IMO give him a 
fascinating extra dimension. <g> This is probably also why I don't 
understand why Ron-fans get so wound up at the suggestion that Ron 
might throw in with the Dark Side. I get a big kick out of 
speculating about Evil Harry, even though I doubt it'll ever happen 
(as, incidentally, I doubt Ron will ever throw in with the Dark Side, 
either.) But it's fun to posit.

Cass