Harry is More Powerful When Wandless - A Fatal Flaw

[erisedstraeh2002]

No: HPFGUIDX 43063

We've been having a discussion about the premise that Voldemort gave 
Harry his wand in the graveyard because Voldemort knew Harry was more 
powerful without a wand.  I think I've found a fatal flaw in this 
premise, which is that Harry was wandless when he was tied to the 
gravestone and he didn't do any magic at all, powerful or not, while 
he was tied up. The instances we've seen of Harry doing wandless 
magic - the Aunt Marge inflation incident and the vanishing glass at 
the zoo, for example - haven't involved him using his arms to make 
the magic happen, so this suggests to me that he only needs his brain 
(and perhaps those gorgeous green Lily eyes??) to make the wandless 
magic happen.  So, this suggests to me that Harry could have 
performed wandless magic while he was tied up.

So I think if Voldemort truly thought that Harry was more powerful 
without a wand, he would have killed him immediately upon his arrival 
in the graveyard (probably by slitting his throat so he could get 
Harry's blood for the regeneration potion by force - oh, perish the 
thought!).

~Phyllis