TBAY: Harry giving up powers?

[cindysphynx]

No: HPFGUIDX 38515

Caroline wrote:

> I am one of the few (heck, maybe I'm the *only* one)who believes 
that 
> Harry's Big Bangy secret is that he is a living embodiment of the 
> philosopher's stone. (This is all based on an alchemical 
> interpretation of the symbols that surround Harry; stag, phoenix, 
> lion, serpent, color green, red, etc.  I could go into great 
detail 
> but I'll restrain myself :--) Not that he's necessarily immortal, 
but 
> that he holds within his being the potential for eternal life if 
> properly activated.

Oooh!  My inner Bang is seriously warming to this idea!  Caroline, I 
think you could well be on to something with this.  "Stoned Harry" --
it works for me!  I think I want in on the ground floor of this 
burgeoning movement.

Actually, the idea that Harry has the potential for eternal life 
explains a lot of canon mysteries.  It explains why Dumbledore seems 
not to be troubled by Harry's rule-breaking.  It explains why the 
DEs couldn't curse fleeing Harry.  It explains why Harry was 
stronger than Voldemort in the duel.  It explains why Harry was able 
to survive his duel with the Basilisk.  I've never been entirely 
comfortable with the wobbly explanation for Harry's unique ability 
to survive AK -- that his mothers' love was so unique that it 
protected him, and AbsentMinded!Voldemort forgot all about this.

It also goes a ways toward explaining why Dumbledore is so secretive 
about Harry's past.  After all, Dumbledore can hardly walk up to 
Harry and tell him that the good news is that Harry is immortal, but 
the bad news is that he has to sacrifice this to save the wizarding 
world.  That would be a bit of a bummer, to say the least.

Answer me this, though.  Where did Stoned Harry's potential for 
eternal life come from?  Is it embodied in his scar?  Does it have 
something to do with parseltongue, do you think?  Is it related to 
the analysis of alchemy you mentioned (which I don't remember so you 
might have to repeat)?

Hmmm.  If we figure this one out, we can practically write the end
of Book 7, now can't we?  Um, or at least, I think we can.  I know 
one thing for sure, though.  There is going to have to be a 
*seriously* Big catalyst for Harry to make this huge sacrifice; no 
way is he just going to slowly mull it and quietly screw up his 
nerve to to lay down his life.  

<glares at George, his sister Diana and all the rest of those slow-
as-molassis theories>

Cindy (who thinks Caroline is well on the way to figuring out the 
Big and Bangy Climactic Book 7 scene in which Harry chooses to make 
the ultimate sacrifice like a certain famous Biblical figure)