Harry's mission and magical powers
Barb
alohomora at execulink.com
Mon Jan 21 03:08:27 UTC 2002
No: HPFGUIDX 33805
Hello Kristin and thank you for clearing up my understanding (or lack of...)
regarding heir, descendent and ancestor. Your examples made it very clear to
me.
If I might add one more "suppose"... lets suppose that since time travel is
possible in the wizarding world, that Harry is actually re-visiting the past
during the entire series of books, using a time-turner for some yet undisclosed
purpose.
I also wonder about Harry knowing Parseltongue. I've not got a
firm thought on how he came to know the language but your letter made me think
that perhaps it was a "mistake" of V's spell. What I mean is, that in trying
to kill Harry by magic, that when 'the something' that went wrong, occurred,
perhaps the energy that was lost from V, went INTO Harry along with
specific knowledge of certain things. We know that V lost his power and became
a shell of his former self and that energy had to go somewhere. I suspect a
great deal of it acted as an atomic bomb-type blast and blew the house to bits
but other parts of that energy may well have entered Harry in the form of repressed
knowledge. The Parseltongue could be part of that knowledge passed on unwittingly
in the disaster. It seems a little too obvious that the only injury to Harry
is on his head (forehead) which houses a brain full of electrical activity.
As we know the book was originally intended for the enjoyment of children who
may need a more concrete view of things, perhaps the scar is a concrete symbol
of the transfer of energy and power. It would have seemed rather silly if Harry
had the scar on his bum or hand or something ;o) Obviously not his bum because
nobody would be able to it, but it could have been elsewhere on him that 'is'
exposed.
Barb
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