Harry's sacrifice

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 58585

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Heidi Tandy" 
<heidit at n...> wrote:
> Pippin wrote:
 Yet Neville's 
> family thought he was "all Muggle for ages"  and were afraid 
that  he wasn't magical enough to come. How could  there be 
doubt,   unless they thought something had happened to 
Neville's magic after the quill had written his name? 
> ***
> 
> We actually don't know if parents, guardians or family 
members know that a child's name has been written with the 
quill until said child gets the Hogwarts letter. So I don't think
this 
can be definitive evidence of Neville "losing" his magic. If nobody 
knew he had magic in him from the start they might reasonably 
think he was "all Muggle" instead. <<

Hagrid knew that Harry's name had been down since he was a 
baby, so the knowledge is available.  Gran Longbottom certainly 
would have wanted to know. I think   anybody who tried to keep 
her from finding out would have had a vulture-hatted, 
handbag-toting shaped hole in them. :-)

And I (blush)  overlooked  the most obvious example of a wizard 
losing his powers: Voldemort himself. Hagrid says, " Most of us 
reckon he's still out there somewhere but lost his powers. Too 
weak to carry on." We know now, of course, that Voldemort didn't 
actually lose  his powers, he lost his body. But Hagrid didn't 
know that when he spoke. 

Pippin