Harry's abilities
Keith Fraser
keith.fraser at st-annes.ox.ac.uk
Fri Jan 26 00:42:33 UTC 2001
No: HPFGUIDX 10701
--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Sister Mary Lunatic" <klaatu at p...>
wrote:
> There's something about HARRY specifically. Voldemort had a reason
to kill
> him, even though he was a helpless one-year-old child.
> A passage from PS/SS, last chapter, when Harry wakes up in the
infirmary and
> talks to Dumbledore:
>
> "Well... Voldemort said that he only killed my mother because she
tried to
> stop him from killing me. But why would he want to kill me in the
first
> place?'
>
> Dumbledore sighed very deeply this time.
>
> 'Alas, the first thing you ask me, I cannot tell you. Not today.
Not now.
> You will know, one day... put it from your mind for now, Harry.
When you are
> older... I know you hate to hear this... when you are ready, you
will know."
>
> SML
Thank you! Great screaming pajandorums, I'd totally forgotten that
quote! This does support the super-Harry theory to a fair extent,
though it could also support the self-fulfilling Trelawney prophecy
theory as well.
Keith
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