The SCAR channel

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Several current threads made me think about the scar and its 
implications. Here is one idea I had, hoping it hadn't been already 
posted 20 times in the past. Remember the two main facts about the 
scar: 

1. LV transferred some of his powers to baby Harry when he gave him 
the scar. The main (single?) example of such a power is parcelmouth. 
The moment I read it in CoS I was expecting for more of these powers 
to surface in next books, but until now we haven't seen any, unless 
Harry's exceptional abilities in DADA is an example.

2. The scar also acts as a channel between Harry's and LV's minds. 
Harry was able to receive LV's emotions and even direct perceptions. 
When LV learned about it he was able to feed Harry false information 
through the channel and even possess him, for a short time.

Using Ockham's Razor, it is preferable to explain both #1 and #2 by 
using only #2. According to this idea, the channel passes not only 
emotions and perceptions, but also abilities and powers. So when 
Harry is speaking parcel tongue, he is not using an ability that was 
burned in his own mind at that fateful night when he was 1 year old. 
Rather, he is (subconsciously, of course) directly accessing LV's 
mind through the scar channel, in real time, and tapping the 
parcelmouth ability. Kind of like when I sit in front of my computer, 
exploring and calling files from the server computer through the 
intranet, for all practical purposes as if it was my own computer.

The full implications of this possibility are too big for me to 
encompass at this moment, but here are two to start with: First, it 
means that practically any talent, power and ability that LV has or 
acquired in many years of studying, Harry can use through the channel 
as if it was his own, if only he can find out how to access it. This 
gives the words "mark him as his equal" a practically literal 
meaning. Of course, LV might also access Harry abilities through the 
channel, but I don't think he will find much in the mind of a 16 
years old wizard, except for that "wonderful and terrible" force that 
he can't use.

Secondly, it means that if Harry will succeed and vanquish the Dark 
Lord, he will also lose all the powers and abilities that actually 
come from LV's mind. I think he will still retain his flying talent 
and quidditch reflexes (these he probably inherited from James) but I 
suspect he will find himself much less powerful and his DADA 
abilities considerably reduced. Well, big achievements require 
sacrifices and all that.

Any additional ideas?

Neri