Harry's abilities

[Charmian]

No: HPFGUIDX 9409

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Amy " <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> Lori wrote:
> 
> > It cannot have been Lily's sacrifice that saved Harry from 
> Voldemort, at
> > least not by itself.
> > 
> > Voldemort apparently killed many people.  Men, women, children, 
> various
> > non-human magical creatures.  And in all those murders, no one 
ever 
> died
> > trying to save someone else before Lily?  I don't buy it.  No one 
> else
> > seems to have survived V's rage because Person X died to save 
them.
> > 

If a sacrifice was needed to break Voldy's power (or to break the 
Avada Kedavra curse's power, which is older than Voldy), probably 
somebody would have done it before, so I agree with your logical 
point. As we have blathered on this group time and time again, Harry 
must have done something (and we're all nuts to find out what it is) 
to be on the Voldemort hit list as an infant. There does seem to be 
something partially destined about Harry. This logically doesn't work 
with the choice theme in the book, but a lot of books have this same 
underlying inconsistency. (Because if anybody theoretically can be 
like Harry and eventually save the world, why is there a need for 
Harry himself? Because he's the protagonist, and it's about him, of 
course.) I deal with it by seeing it metaphorically. This is probably 
also because the "chosen hero" plot is a very old one, from a time 
when people did believe widely in predestination and also had more 
rigid class structures. The "chosen hero" is often determined by his 
birthright, or by prophecy. (Although you could also say that this 
aspect really isn't about birth determining destiny, but a metaphor 
for something else, or supposed to hint to the reader that everyone 
is marked out for a worthy destiny, etc.) So when we add in the 
modern democratic emphasis on choice, there are inconsistencies (or 
at least that's where I see them coming from). But, my theories will 
probably fall apart when we find out why it is that Voldmort wanted 
to kill Harry, Dumbledore's motivations, and the exact way in which V 
is eventually defeated. 

Charmian

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