Average Harry?

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 18765

Ebony wrote:

> Perhaps I'm just not seeing the problem with giftedness.  

I have to run and don't have time to hunt up Jim's post, but I don't 
think it claimed Harry needed to be average or that he wasn't gifted. 
 The whole objection to Uberharry (on which I can and will deliver an 
eloquent and longwinded dissertation when I get the time) doesn't 
rest on the claim that he isn't gifted.  Of course he is!--as you say, 
he's not at all average in his flying/Quidditch talent, in his 
"emotional intelligence," etc.  The real question is whether he is 
Everyman or Other.  I plump for the former and I hope and believe JKR 
will also.

Amy Z

P.S.  Frodo is not at all average either.  He has extraordinary 
integrity and courage.  But he's still Everyman.  JMHO.

P.P.S.  I actually think the real issue is more about the concept of 
destiny than anything else.  I don't believe in destiny, I don't 
find it an interesting concept, and I wonder if a search would turn 
the word up anywhere in the four books.  But no time now.  I shall 
return . . .