Clues in COS (was Re: Dumbledore's integrity)

[erinellii]

No: HPFGUIDX 80081

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "wildfire_517" 
<wildfire_517 at y...> wrote:
> 
>   However, I do see transfer of powers as being highly likely.  The 
> two most powerful wizards we have seen (DD and LV) who are 
generally 
> considered the two most powerful alive both have, at one point or 
> another, "defeated" other wizards.  Since no other wizard seems to 
be 
> remotely close to them in power (Incidently, how would one measure 
> wizarding power?  Who can do what spells fastest?), it could be 
> assumed that their leaps and bounds came from slaying other wizards 
> and not just good old fashioned hard work.  I can definitely see 
this 
> as being a delightful plot twist in books to come.
> 
>     Wyld



Power transfers? I don't think so.  If wizards could gain other 
wizards powers by killing them (think Highlander) I'm pretty sure 
we'd have heard about it before now.  And there'd be a lot more of it 
going on.  Power-hungry Fudge and Umbridge, for example, would 
probably be offing people left and right.  I could see it working 
that way for Harry because of the connection he and Voldemort already 
share, but not for anyone else in the WW.

Erin