Will Harry lose his powers? (Was:Book 7 predictions)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 98146

Lots of interesting comments on this thread. I apologize for 
taking them out of order.

Pippin previously:
> From what I've read of JKR's interviews, she doesn't like the 
sort  of series where the hero is the ageless, changeless 
protagonist of endless sequels--I don't think she'd leave Harry to 
such a fate.
> 

Dave:
> She must really hate the Oz books then.  :)<

Pippin:
I love Oz too. But *somebody* usually grows up in the course of 
an Oz book.  Dorothy, though never adolescent herself, is the 
cause of adolescence in others.

Annemehr:

>>Are you equating an ending where Harry winds up live and 
magical withnever growing up? <snip snip>
Are you saying that *Professor McGonagall* is forever stuck in
adolescence because her magic is still intact?<<

Pippin:
It's not that Harry has to grow up, but that we do. The wizarding 
world will go on, but without Harry--and without us.The magical 
world has to be separate because, as Hagrid pointed out way 
back in Book One, we shouldn't expect magical solutions to our 
problems. 

McGonagall is a grown up. But as umpteen feminist critics have 
pointed out, she's not exactly larger-than-life and she's happy to 
be that way. I think that's JKR's point. The truly grown-up are no 
longer in thrall to their adolescent fantasies of being great and 
powerful. 

Jim:
>>GMTA. And this could be the rebirth. When I said that Harry 
couldgive us his magic, I never thought he'd be thrown on to the 
Muggle world after that; he would be the living saint of the wizard 
world. It would fit in very well with the themes of love and Harry's 
ability that LV knows not.<<

Pippin:
Being famous for something you can't do anymore (think 
Bagman) seems to me almost as pathetic as being famous for 
something you can't remember. You might as well be a ghost. I 
don't think Harry would care for it.

 My personal ficcy expansion on the ending has the wizarding 
world believing that Harry died to save them and that 
broken-hearted Ginny is travelling in India, because otherwise 
the surviving Death Eaters might find them and by some Dark 
Magic use them to resurrect their master. But that's just me.

Pippin
wondering what GMTA is