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

[meidbh]

No: HPFGUIDX 108255


Liz wrote:
 "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!"

Meidh speculates:
Dumbledore believes Harry possesses the power of a "force...more 
wonderful and more terrible than death, than human intelligence, 
than forces of nature...(a) power...which Voldemort has not at all...
(a) force he detests".

I suppose this force could have come with Voldemorts attack as a 
sort of magical genetic mutation or recessive trait, but I think 
it's much more likely that it came from somewhere else, most likely 
Harry's own parents.

The squib-at-birth theory could still work though if Harry only 
gained this power when his mother died for him. But again looking at 
probabilities, we know squibs are quite rare, we know Neville is a 
little bit squibbish himself, odds are Harry was a wizard from 
birth. (And he makes a better hero that way!)

Meidbh