Loss of power theory (was Harry's Special Powers)

[Dai Evans]

No: HPFGUIDX 10546

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Keith Fraser" <keith.fraser at s...> 
wrote:

> However, if Harry is your plain ordinary common-or-garden 
> everyday bog-standard wizard, why did Voldemort want to kill him in 
> the first place? I suppose the resistance-to-Avada-Kedavra-spell-in-
> development theory kind of covers that. But if Harry is in fact 
> perfectly normal and what saved him at age 1 was something his 
> parents did, it means his fame and veneration has been entirely 
> undeserved...something that could be very messy. 

I think I may have found a hole in the "resistance-to-Avada-Kedavra-
spell-in-development" (RTAKSID) theory.
>From PS - "The Man with Two Faces":

'I always value bravery ... Yes, boy, your parents were brave ... I 
killed your father first and he put up a courageous fight ... but 
your mother needn't have died ... she died trying to protect you ... 
Now give me the stone' etc.

It seems to me from this that Voldemort only really needed to kill 
Harry and James. If the RTAKSID theory is to hold then he would have 
only needed to kill Lily and James. If the Super-Harry theory is to 
hold then he would only have needed to kill Harry and he would have 
said that both his parents needn't have died.

The Trelawney/first prediction and unicorn/infant theories however 
can be merged together at this point to provide a GRAND UNIFIED 
THEORY OF EVERYTHING which covers the four bases already established; 
that Voldemort needed to kill Harry (base one) and James (base two) 
but not Lily (base three) and the reason behind V losing his powers
(base four).

Suppose we take the elements of the Trelawney/first prediction theory 
which are that Prof. Trelawneys first prediction was that Harry would 
lead to Voldemorts downfall hence Vs reason  to kill him; bases one 
and three are covered. Then we refine it to make it more vague in 
that she said it would be a male of the Potter line (vague being 
fairly common in divination), this covers base two. Now we bring in 
the Unicorn/Infant theory for a home run.

In response to Keith's point about Harry being undeserving of his 
fame, well... maybe. Just look at Guilderoy Lockhart and Robbie 
Williams, fame isn't always placed on those deserving.

The truth is out there and one day we will find it. Please pick holes 
in this theory, it's so much fun patching them up.


Dai