There's Something Special About Harry...

[Kevin Hoffman]

No: HPFGUIDX 11546

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> > I'd agree that he is  most likely not a special kind of wizard, 
> > though as for amazing  abilities no other (living) wizard has, 
> JKR 
> > has *already* given him  some of those: Parseltongue, 
> prophetic 
> > dreams, the ability to resist the Imperius Curse, etc. 
> 
> To be precise, these are not unique among living wizards; they 
> are just rare.  We don't know whether anyone besides Harry and 
> Voldemort are Parselmouths; people aren't real likely to make it 
> public if they are.  Resisting the Imperius Curse is not 
> unheard-of; Harry's just unusually good at it.  I'm going by Crouch 
> Sr's ability to shake it off (granted, it takes him several 
months), 
> but more by Moody's attempt to teach resistance in class, which 
> he wouldn't do if it were something impossible or unteachable.  
> And we have no idea whether others have prophetic dreams.
> 
> Amy Z

Actually, if I remember, it wasn't moody who taught resistance to the 
imperius curse, but crouch jr. in a Moody body.  Could it be that a 
natural instinct to resist the imperius curse is a dark wizard 
trait.  Maybe Crouch jr. was teaching the class the resistance in a 
effort to test who the natural dark wizards were, or maybe just to 
test how strong harry's powers are.  
Kevin

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