Will Harry lose his powers? Slightly Ficcy - The End

[annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 98137

Cutting and pasting from two different posts:

Pippin:
> Call me a shipper, call me a hopeless
> romantic, but when he's given up the wizarding world to save it,
> and it seems he's lost everything, there'll turn out to be one
> witch who thinks, like Arthur Weasley, that the Muggle world does
> not lack for wonder, and besides, any world with Harry in it is
> magical enough.

 
> bboy_mn:
> 
> Let me propose a compromise scenerio in the form of a very rough Fan
> Fiction.
> 
> In the final battle, Harry allows himself to be stripped of his
> magical powers in order to defeat Voldemort, or alternately, he loses
> his power without his prior knowledge or consent. The point is he's
> lost his magical powers.
<snip>
> Sometime later Harry is visiting Ron at the Burrow.
<snip Harry's troubles getting around Ron's room in the dark> 
> "Ouch! Son of a .... LUMOS!" Harry shouts, mostly out of frustration
> and habit. And to everyone's surprise, every wand tip in the room
ignites.
<snip> 
> Harry has lost his magic power, his skill, his technique, but a truly
> magical person like Harry can never lose the core essense that made
> him as great as he is. [...] With time, and healing, and practice,
Harry is
> able to do very elementary magic. [...] And, this is a good
> thing, because Harry will never be powerful enough that the wizard
> world will again be tempted to call on him for help, and that suits
> him just fine. He's certainly had more than enough Dark Wizard
> fighting to last anyone a lifetime.
<snip>

Annemehr:
Pippin has been right all along, I'll concede, in that losing or
giving up his magic is probably the greatest sacrifice Harry could
make, and fair game for JKR.  In fact, Pippin, you've convinced me
that it could be a good, strong ending, though for me quite painful.

On the other hand, I'll probably always disagree with Pippin that he
needs to give his powers up so that he avoids the fate of Peter Pan. 
This is because, if magic was the product of a childish imagination
which Harry must leave behind in his maturity, it makes the ending of
the story too much like some other endings I'd be disappointed in: the
ones where it was only the dream of an abused child in a cupboard, or
his schizophrenic coping mechanism.  In other words, if Harry has to
leave the WW to grow up and enter the RW, it means that the WW was
never real, and neither was anything he did there or anyone he met.

If Harry does lose his powers and has to leave the WW, then the WW
should still be something "there" that he doesn't have.  To my taste,
that scenario was just too bleak, like a lifelong torture Harry
doesn't deserve.

But now, Pippin and bboy_mn are proposing loopholes!  The sacrifice is
mitigated somewhat, perhaps beyond Harry's expectations at the time he
defeats Voldemort.  I'm not sure what my point is going to be here,
other than to notice what a difference that would make.  If Harry
marries a witch, he still has indirect access to magic: he can still
enter the WW fairly easily and visit, and there will be magic in his
home, because there is never any suggestion that a magic person who
marries a muggle loses powers (though I can't remember any proof
either way).  Bboy_mn would leave Harry a little magic of his own,
which is reminiscent of the "Losing LV's powers and becoming
Just!Harry" scenario, only it goes even further.  Incidentally, I
really liked the wand-lighting imagery!

Annemehr
done now, but still not sure she made a point