Harry's innate abilities

[jodel at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 45111

Interesting thread, but we've gotten off into a fruitless comparison between 
sports and music. No one seems to be carrying the observation back a step to 
a point where it makes somewhat better sense.

Quidditch skills, per se, are probably not inheritible. But those Quidditch 
skills are the finished product. You don't start with the finished product, 
you start with the ingredients, and those very well might be inherited 
tendencies. For example;

A good sense of balance may be inherited. Good reflexes may be. The sort of 
agility necessary to be able to change direction quickly without falling over 
or loosing control may be. A good sense of timing, good hand and eye 
coordination probably are. (Not necessarily vision. Both Harry and his father 
seem to have had to wear glasses -- or are James's glasses fanon?) 

Quidditch skills are composed of may other elements and rather a lot of them 
are things which an individual CAN inherit at least a nacent tendency toward, 
which can be trained in whatever direction the possesser of them might 
choose. There is a very reasonable likelihood of Harry's having inherited at 
least some of these basic strengths from one or both of his parents.

-JOdel