Harry a Seer? (Magical Bond to Pettigrew and Voldemort)

MrNipha <psnow@nipha.com> psnow at nipha.com
Tue Jan 14 04:13:49 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 49763

> bboy_mn:
> With the exception of Seeing being relative to the future only, I
> agree with the points you made. SO FAR, all the evidence says that
> Harry's ability is tied directly to and limited to Voldemort, so I
> can't show evidence that Harry is anything beyond 'a very limited 
> Seer'.
> 
In the last chapter of PoA, Dumbledore says,
"When one wizard save's another wizard's life, it creates a certain
bond between them... This is magic at its deepest, its most
impenetrable...".

Harry has a magical connection to Voldemort because of the failed AK,
but he also has a magical connection to Pettigrew.  In both of the
dreams Harry had in GoF, he sees Pettigrew, but not Voldemort, and
both times they are talking about killing Harry.  Harry's scar hurts
because, according to Dumbledore in GoF, "Voldemort ... is feeling
particularily murderous" -- Voldemort uses an AK at the end of the
first dream against the caretaker, and a Cruciatus against Pettigrew
in the second.
However, in PS/SS, Harry does not have a dream when Quirrell is
planning to kill Harry at the Quidditch Match.

We have seen that Pettigrew is not magically constrained in being
involved in activities directly intended to kill Harry at the
cemetary.  Without Pettigrew's actions, Voldemort could not have held
Harry captive.  Pettigrew did not attempt to jump in front of Harry
when Voldemort cast the AK at Harry.  The magic obviously does not
work to force the wizard to save the other wizard's life against their
will, so how does it work?

Perhaps Harry's dreams are at least part of the answer.

MrNipha






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