The Second Voldemort War, Stage II

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 91035

Jim Ferer wrote:
In most ways Harry already does access LV's powers; he got many of 
them from LV when he was attacked. You could say your hypothesis 
has been true all along.
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Neri wrote:
Actually the only power that we know Harry got from LV is 
parselmouth. We assume there are more because DD said "powers" in 
plural. It is possible that some of Harry's exceptional abilities in 
DADA also came from LV, but I couldn't find anything in canon that 
specifically suggests it. How many other powers Harry got from LV and 
what are they? JKR keeps the answer to this question well hidden in 
her sleeve. The answer my pet theory suggests is "All of them, and 
none".

Carol: 
Since his parents were a wizard and a witch (Muggle-born or not), he
probably would have been about as powerful as, say, Ron or Draco, if
the events at Godric's Hollow had never happened. He definitely
inherited his skills in flying and quidditch from James and may have
received some aptitude in charms or transfiguration from his parents
as well. He would have gone to Hogwarts, certainly, but IMO he would
have been just another half-blood wizard whose parents had gone there
before him, neither "marked" nor in any way special.

But the transfer of LV's powers made him into someone else, "the one"
who can defeat Voldemort (but not yet, not until he discovers and
channels those unknown powers). Maybe the power required to produce a
"corporeal patronus" in the face of either a boggart or a real
dementor (as opposed to a fellow DA member) comes, ironically, from
the confrontation with Voldemort. And the channel between his scar and
Voldemort, the ability to sense LV's emotions and see and hear in
dreams what LV is doing and saying, could be regarded as a power as
well. OTOH, it may not be so much specific abilities as sheer *power*
that he acquired from LV, power of the sort that Dumbledore also seems
to have in abundance. Harry's wand, the twin of Voldemort's, sensed
something special in him, and I think it was those transferred
powers--or a few specific abilities combined with power on a level
with LV's--that the wand sensed. So in a way, he also owes his
particularly powerful wand, the "brother" of Voldemort's, to the
backfired AK. But DD does say "powers," plural, so maybe there's more
to the transferred powers than what we've seen so far.

Carol