Harry and wandless magic

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 97311

> Earendil wrote:
<snip>
> Now I would like to come back to what made me start this thread in 
> the first place: the confrontation between Harry and Vernon in the 
> first chapter of OotP, and Harry's apparent use of wandless magic, 
> not detected nor sanctioned by the Ministry.
> 
> It seems some people here agree with my theory that this particular 
> occurence was linked to his scar/protection (please go up thread for 
> more details).
> 
> Anyway, whatever Harry managed to do, it was enough to make 
> him 'impossible to hold'. And whatever he did, it sounds both 
> powerful and potentially dangerous. I wonder if we'll see more of it 
> in the next books and if Harry will develop his ability to use it 
> and/or control it. But I'm still unsure whether it would bode any 
> good.


Carol:
My sense of that scene is that it relates to the anger Harry is
feeling through the scar channel--not his own understandable anger
about feeling abandoned and left in the dark, but something more like
the venomous hatred he felt at times for Dumbledore in OoP. In those
scenes the anger takes the form of an urge to bite like a snake, but
that sensation may have been suggested by his vision of Mr. Weasley
being bitten by the Voldemort-possessed Nagini.

In the scene with Uncle Vernon, the anger is more like a surge of
electricity or lightning going through his body into that of the
person trying to hurt him. It may be related to the lightning-shaped
scar as a protective device, or it may just be that the channeled
anger he felt through the scar somehow merged with his own instinctive
 self-protective magic. (IMO, it wouldn't be the kind of thing the MoM
could monitor since nothing happened outside the bodies of Harry and
Uncle Vernon. It's not like a hovering cake, much less a floating and
monstrously bloated aunt who does not return to her normal state. It's
more like the stinging hex he accidentally flung at Snape, which was
certainly wordless and may have been wandless as well.)

I think the surge of anger Voldemort-related and I *don't* think it
bodes well, though it may make Uncle Vernon think twice before
grabbing Harry's throat again. Also I think that a large part of Book
6 will be about Harry learning to control his anger, so maybe we'll
see a similar incident and learn a bit more about what's really
happening. I do think you're onto something, I just don't know quite what.

Carol