Is (was) Harry a squib? (or born a not-so-great wizard?)

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No: HPFGUIDX 108247

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Liz" <liz_carver at i...> wrote:
> When Lord V came after baby Harry in Godric's Hollow, he had 
decided 
> what child to attack because of his own racist attitudes and 
> feelings about his own half-muggle self combined with his 
> presumptions about the prophecy, having been told only part of it.
> 
> And because of these presumptions and decisions Lord V made, is it 
> possible that the otherwise "ordinary" prophecy was turned into 
> a "self-fulfilling prophecy"?
> 
> What I mean is, if he'd decided to go after Neville rather than 
> Harry, perhaps the same thing would have happened - Neville would 
> have had some familial protection that kept him alive and he would 
> have been swept off to a hiding place until Hogwarts age, and Lord 
V 
> would have gone slitering off to Albania to hide-out, just as he 
did 
> in the actual timeline. In the meantime, Harry and the Potters 
> would've continued living hidden away in Godric's Hollow - but with 
> one difference: that Harry would have been weaker wizard or perhaps 
> even a squib. I say this because, I wonder if it had been possible 
> that Lord V's attack that so famously transferred powers to Harry, 
> gave Harry the *only* powers he would ever have had... ? (Not that 
> it matters now of course, because HP has all or more of the power 
> he'd ever want!)
> "Liz"
>Snipped<

Snow:
This idea that Voldemort had given any and all of Harry's magical 
capabilities to him has been and still is controversial. I see too 
much referencing to Harry's magical capabilities belonging to or 
inherited by James for this to be true. Sirius saying, you fly as 
well as your father and you truly are your father's son. Harry is the 
youngest quiddich player in a century. Harry can produce a patronus, 
not just any patronus, but one that looks like his father's animagus 
figure. Harry is very adept at Defense against the Dark Arts even to 
the point of teaching it, which appears to be one of James fortes, 
defense against it. Harry's "magical" abilities appear to be based 
with his parents not Voldemort. 

Harry asks Dumbledore in SS, does that mean he (Voldemort) put a bit 
of himself in me. Dumbledore's answer was it appears so. The most we 
can conclude so far as to what Voldemort's contributions are would be 
parceltongue, possibly the aggressive behavior Harry has exhibited 
since Voldemort's bodily return and the significant Slytherin 
characteristics that the sorting hat had seen. None of these 
examples, with the possible exception of parceltongue, are a magical 
ability. So what magical ability does Harry have that can be directly 
related to Voldemort? I don't see any that would assure me that it 
came directly from Voldemort. 

Therefore in conclusion I will have to support that the portion of 
Voldemort that was transferred to Harry was not his magical abilities 
but his Slytherin attributes. 

Snow: