The magic power of love. Was: BANG! You're dead!

[mad_maxime]

No: HPFGUIDX 86240

Severus:
 
"Remeber Harry is quite powerful in his magical ability, his patronus
is superior to many other full grown wizards, and he did force LV's AK
beam back into LV's wand,it as his power behind his wand that enabled
him to do that.  I thinkwe will see a much older Harry after the
summer is done."

Kneasy:
 
"What he's been through would turn anyone old and grey. But I think
that you're overestimating Harry. He's not a skillful wizard, he
stumbles from one crisis to another, coming through by sheer luck or
outsideinfluence (such as co-incidental wand conflict). What he is
though, is lucky. He can learn a new spell when needed, but a whole
new state of mind, plus a new mental discipline, plus a new magical
subject? Don't think so. He could probably manage to stay ahead of
most of the students, but Voldemort? Arch-fiend and super-mentat?"


Mad Maxime:

Kneasy, it seems to me you are overestimating Voldemort.  Powerful as
he may be, he has made one fatal mistake after another.  He seems to
routinely underestimate his opponents and his prejudices blind him in
ways that are detrimental to his health and well being. 

If JKR has been setting up a hero who only survives because he is
"lucky" and has outside help as you seem to be implying, the
"Arch-fiend" apparently keeps failing because of his extraordinary bad
luck.  Oh my, how boring.

I tend to agree with Severus.  JKR has demonstrated numerous times
that Harry has a powerful innate magical ability (though he is, of
course, not a "skillful wizard" yet, still being a student after all.)
I believe that by Book 7, Harry will have developed his magical
abilities to the point that he is able to exploit Voldemort's
weaknesses. In fact, JKR seems to be implying that Harry is uniquely
set up to defeat Voldemort because he possesses a power that the Dark
Lord knows not. 

Is that power hate (hack/slash, blood/guts and the unforgivables)? I
think not. Hate is something Voldemort knows quite well and has
cultivated to perfection. I think most of us can agree that Harry
stands no chance of defeating Voldemort by cultivating hate.

No, Harry will cultivate something quite the opposite, I believe. JKR
seems to be implying that Harry's power has something to do with love
and compassion. (No, this doesn't mean Harry is going to defeat
Voldemort by giving him hugs and kisses. I trust that JKR can come up
with something more interesting than that!) I believe we're talking
about the 'power of love' in the broadest sense of it's meaning here.
  How things will play out, we can only guess.

Two things we can be certain of though - Voldemort does not seem
understand and/or underestimates the power of love, and he is most
definitely not invincible. 

"Mad Maxime"