Harrys Potential versus Ability (long)

[doddiemoemoe]

No: HPFGUIDX 109674

John <jhnbwmn at h...> wrote:
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> DD and McGonagall says that Voldemort is more powerful the DD, 
> then Harry must be more powerful then DD. This is what I do not 
> get. Madam Marchbanks said that DD did things with a wand that she 
> had never seen before when she examined him for N.E.W.T.'s. So the 
> question becomes, will Harry be able to do things we have never seen 
> before like DD? No. The reason is because Harry does not know magic 
> as well as DD and Voldemort do. He may have innate power comparable 
> to them, but he is not equal to them in a duel (as he states in the 
> MOM). So now we are forced to consider will Harry ever be equal to 
> DD or Voldemort in a duel?


Harry and Voldemort were in a duel and Harry won...He escaped alive. 
Harry is powerful...as DD would probably say...'Powerful yes, but 
not knowlegeable'...And If McGonagall gives Harry lessons to ensure 
he's an auror, then you can bet he is going to do a great many 
things with his wand...things Voldemort will not think of...because 
anything Voldemort has thought of is in Harry already..to some 
extent. It is blatantly apparent that Harry must learn a great deal 
of the power the "Dark Lord knows not".

John wrote:
> This is the question of potential. Will Harry ever fulfill His 
> potential? Or will His potential be squandered like so many of 
> ours? I certainly do not work to my full potential, and I think 
> that most of you out there do not either. So now it is a question 
> if Harry will work to his full potential by the age of 17? Think 
> of it this way. Most of us are in school at 17, and if at 17 you 
> are forced to square off against an expert in your chosen career 
> field, do you think you will be able to beat that expert? 


Harry must try his best of course...but Voldemort has "FOLLOWERS", 
and Harry has "FRIENDS AND LOVED ONES" (because you cannot say that 
Molly, Arthur, Lupin, Flitwick, etc. are friends you cannot deny 
that they have love for him in some fashion or another.) It is 
having these sorts of folks around Harry that will ensure his 
success (IMHO).  If one of Harry's friends "let him down" (which has 
happened numerous times) he doesn't wish/want to punish them...he 
may think about it, but he does not. (Just like at the end of the 
first task in the tri-wizard contest when Ron tried to apologize).

And never forget, there were a great deal many prophecies on the 
shelves in the MOM, who's to say that none of them didn't involve 
anyone that Harry already knew and was a friend or even enemy of.

Doddiemoemoe
(who'd rather have friends than followers any day of the week!)