OOP: The Power (spoilers)

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No: HPFGUIDX 63143

"Gregory Lynn"  wrote:
> You know, the power that Harry has that Voldemort doesn't...
> 
> It's not love, it's humility.  Specifically, the humility to 
acknowledge to yourself that you need help and ask for it.
> 
> Think about it, hasn't a big deal been made about asking for help?  
In CoS Dumbledore says help will always be given to those who ask for 
it, and Malfoy sneers.  And when Harry asks Dobby for help about 
finding a place for the DA practices, he gets it immediately.  And 
when Harry is in that spinning room and he asks which way is the 
exit, it shows him.  And when Harry wakes up after seeing the attack 
on Mr. Weasley, Neville runs to get help and brings exactly who Harry 
wanted.
> 
> At some point, I think this whole thing may hinge on Harry asking 
either Neville or Wormtail (or perhaps both) for help.
> ___________This has a lot of great points... but i think the quality he has is 
not humility or asking for help.  He often tries to run away from 
help... Hermione often forces her help on him.  In book four it is 
plain that he does not ask for enough help to figure out the clues to 
solve the Triwizard Cup problems, and Moody/Crouch Jr. has to help 
him.  

I think it is not so much love but compassion, as Hermione says "he 
loves to act like a hero" but its more like he feels for everybody 
else.  He rescues everybody from the merpeople, he goes to rescue 
Sirius, and he feels for Luna Lovegood, and even for Snape when he 
sees how he was bullied by his father's gang. 

On the other hand I think too that Neville and Wormtail will have 
important parts.  I think book three says that saving the life of 
Voldemort's servant can come in handy.  Also, this saving of a life 
of a wizard theme has to be crucial to the plot in several instances -
 we still need to learn for example why Dumbledore trusts Snape 
unconditionally. 

Marta