The Boy that Lived: Final fate

[annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 72097

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, silmariel <silmariel at t...> 
wrote:
> 
>  Annemehr:
>  <<And I
>  still don't see why his magic should die;  it's a part of who he
>  is.  Losing his magic would just seem as arbitrary as, say, losing
>  his power of speech.>>
> 
> Are you saying mute people are doomed to be unhappy or something 
like that. 
> Magic is a part of Harry, else it wouldn't be much of be a 
sacrifice, but 
> Harry should be able to be Harry with or without magic.
> 
> Plot reasons and so? I felt so bad for Ged when he lose magic in 
Earthsea 3, 
> but then I loved him the same in the fourth book. I discovered 
behind the 
> magic there was a fantastic human being. Harry's mood might even 
be better, 
> who knows.
> 
> He could work at Rosmerta's. 
> 
> silmariel

Annemehr:
I didn't mean that mute people are doomed to be unhappy, I just 
meant, what would it have to do with the story if Harry became one?  
It would be a pointless misfortune as far as theme or plot go.  
Harry losing all his powers feels quite the same to me.  The only 
reason anyone says this might happen seems to be to give him a 
sacrifice short of death to make.  I would like to see more of a 
reason than that -- one that is integral to defeating Voldemort.  
Would he lose his powers as a result of whatever action of his 
defeats V, and what would the machanics of that be?  Alternatively, 
would V somehow sap him of his powers so that he must find some 
other way to overcome him?  Would this in turn undermine the theme 
of "choices" in that Harry would then be *forced* into some 
alternative course?  Personally, I would like to see things resolved 
some other way.

I can't comment on your example with Ged as I haven't read any of 
U.K. Leguin except _The_Tombs_of_Atuan_ in almost thirty years 
<thinks it's about time to revisit the series>.

Annemehr