How powerful is/ will Harry as wizard?

Rafe rafe at bigfoot.com
Wed Oct 31 21:37:12 UTC 2001


No: HPFGUIDX 28544

I apologise if this has been dsicussed before (although in the time 
I've lurked some things seem to come up frequently :)

I was wondering just how powerful is Harry and how powerful will he 
become as the story develops?

At first glance it does seem that Harry is anything special - 
Hermione top of the class, he can't even do the levitation spell. 
Then there potions which he nevers seem to be great at. He seems 
reltaively keen to copy homework of Hermione.

However there is contrasting evidence... it seems that Ron is the one 
always that little been more keen for help, and in GOF although he 
gets his friends to help with the Tasks (although even then its 
limited) he does seem to be doing what homework he has on his own. In 
relation to the tasks he seems to be a hard worker (puller an all 
nighter in the library!). Also we dont know how he would have done in 
the exams. Not having the hcampions doing the exams was a cunning way 
of us not be able to compare Harry with his classmastes.

Aside from this there several points in the text that suggest he's 
reasonable powerful:

1) Learning to Patronus (many grown wizards can't do it)
2) Resisting Imperious
3) Cruciatas (sp?) does effect him, but as much as others? (This is 
MoldyVoldy doing the casting remember).
4) A rather impressive long disatnce summoning chalm.
5) Banishing chalm (to his urprise his cushions landed on top of 
Hermione's)
6) Voldemort and Priori Incatem - he forced Voldemort' wand to give 
up its spell - seems like a power contest almost.

I sure some others can pick out other incidences. Whats this suggest 
to me is there is a certain amount of latent power. He's has a lot of 
Magical Ability to draw on. Compare say IQ - you can have a high IQ 
but not fully utuilise till your trained. Simarly (but at an older 
age with Wizards?) i can see Harry having a higher MIQ rating?

Quetsions
1) Will we see his power develop further?
2) Will this be obvious, or is Harry going to get 'scret' extra 
training.

In a related matter how will this be expressed? Could he be good at 
dueling - will we see dueling making a come back - a step up in 
preparing everuone for dark times?

Rafe





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