Lily's magical abilities?

[Mags1326]

No: HPFGUIDX 75446

 "ghinghapuss" <rredordead at a...> wrote:
> I agree. Lilly has to have been a very powerful witch.  
> 
> Harry gets all his immense power from a combination of both 
parents. 
> And we know Harry to be one of the most powerfull wizards born in a 
> long time.  Dumbledore has said so himself somewhere in the series. 
> Also Rowling is very specific in telling us (repeatedly) that Harry 
> looks like his dad but has his mother's eyes. I take from that to 
> mean on the surface he is like his dad but inside, his heart, his 
> sole and his magical ability are more like his mum.

Still new at this, bear with me :-)

I agree, Lily must have been a very powerful witch.  All of Harry's 
talent can't be coming from his father, Lily was Head Girl at 
Hogwarts.  There is definite merit to the "inside he's like his mum' 
theory (spoken by a woman who looks just like her mom but has her 
father's eyes), and that could be LV's undoing.  If Lily was a muggle 
born witch (which I believe given the 'mudblood' ref from Snape in 
OoP) then she was not steeped in generations of magical thought.  
Harry was also raised by muggles, and brings a fresh perspective to 
the battle against LV.  Obviously they tried the traditional ways of 
defeating LV the first time around, and were pretty much failing.  
Some new blood could be the key.