Harry's Power Vs Voldys Power

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 > > Anyone have any thoughts on Harrys natural ability versus the
extra ability given him by the most feared wizard for a century?
> 


Well, Rowling has rather cut the ground out from under that particular
avenue of exploration by making sure that the only really remarkable
skill we've seen Harry discover that pretty clearly *wasn't* from
Voldemort was also read as an inhereted ability.

Namely, James Potter's talent as a flyer. That one pretty clearly had
nothing to do with Tom Riddle. 

But she's said already that Harry will be discovering new powers, so
maybe one of those will be unique to him alone. 

Frankly, apart from Parseltongue, much of the "magical transfusion"'s
effects so far have been more on the order of giving Harry an
additional "amount" of power rather than specific gifts in specific
directions.

As for Legilimency; I'm inclined to suspect that Harry will be better
at Legilimency than he is at Occlumency, but that skill is described
as "obscure" rather than "rare", so quite a few other people may share
it (my money is on Remus Lupin). I also suspect that it is a skill
which usually develops in early childhood under certain environmental
circumstances, which were not present in the Dursley household. So
Harry's Legilimency skills, if any, are completely latent at present.
He may (we shall hope) be able to learn enough to protect himself, but
I doubt he will ever be the master Legilimens that tom Riddle is.

In fact, Harry's magical advantages so far appear to only kick into
gear when he is dealing directly with Voldemort, and those advantages
have been severly undercut now that Voldemort is back on the physical
plane and aware of the link. 

I also suspect that Dumbledore et. als. were going at the problem from
the wrong direction in OotP by trying to teach Harry to simply block
the link. What needs to happen is for Harry to learn to *control* the
link. He needs to learn to be as much of a headache to Voldemort as
Voldemort is to him.