[HPforGrownups] Re: Who is Harry Potter? (long)

[Carole Estes]

No: HPFGUIDX 9536


----- Original Message -----
From: "heidi tandy" <heiditandy at yahoo.com>


>
> Oh, I'm not trying to belittle the sacrifice - I think
> that kind of sacrifice is an amazing, honorable and
> horrible thing - and I'm not refering to any specific
> thing that's been mentioned in the books - i.e. JKR
> hasn't said "Person K died in hopes of his sacrifice
> saving his cousin J, because he loved J so much but J
> didn't survive the Avada Kedavra curse" - it's more
> like, in the 10+ years that Voldemort was taking over,
> and death eaters were killing people left & right, it
> would be improbable that Lily POtter was the first
> person to throw her/himself between a Death Eater (or
> Voldemort) doing the AK curse, and the intended
> victim.
>

I'm going to second Heidi here in that what she wrote was nearly identical
to a post in my draft box.  Furthermore I wanted to add that just because it
seems that Harry has some extraordinary powers that are not common to the
general wizarding population, it in no way diminishes his humanity and what
he chooses to do with those powers.  The fact that he is lauded as special,
yet really just wants to be a normal guy and not cash in on his "fame"
attests to his strength of character.

Its mentioned that Lily's sacrifice was one protection that was cast on
Harry, but doesn't Dumbledore allude to other protections.  To bring this
back to Amy's original point (I think..it was about 1000 messages ago...)
...  If it turns out that JKR gives Harry has special abilities beyond what
Lily provided by her sacrifice, the story still hinges on the choices Harry
makes with his talents, and that is something we can all relate to whether
the special talents are magical or mere mortal stuff like talent with
numbers, or writing, or drawing, or law, or whatever.

carole