[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry's skill level by book 7

[Nguyen, Marc]

No: HPFGUIDX 42043

Grey Wolf wrote:
>>Finally, you sugest a way of measuring whose the most powerful wizard 
>>by it being the winner of a duel. This is a bad way of measuring it, 
>>since the most powerful wizard would always be the one that can say 
>>"Avada Kedavra" the fastest (and, still, you'd get quite a high number 
>>of draws).


my reply:

I agree with you mostly, but I had thought, from the "dueling club" in CoS,
that there was a way for 2 people to spar/fight, without the use of AK. I'd
like to call it "wizard boxing". Here, 2 wizards/witches can match skills
against one another without the possibility of using any dangerous/illegal
spells/curses. From what i can gather, the only curse that cannot be
*learned* to block is AK. 

So, I guess my revised question is, in this "wizard boxing", can Harry match
skills against the best wizards execpt for Dumbledore/Voldemort by book 7? 

I don't think he can beat Voldemort single handedly in book 7, i think there
is going to be help of some type for our hero. Also, Dumbledore is 150+
years old, there is  a lot that a wizard can learn in that time, and Harry
would only be 17, I think if they were to box, Dumbledore would eventually
cast something that Harry can't handle.


Marc