Book 7 predictions

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 98161

Pippin:
> > But what he really wants, what he's always wanted, is a family 
> > who loves him. 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.


StrongBad comments:
> Sorry.  I just don't buy it.  No way he returns to the muggle world 
> by some never used magic spell, or something, as a sacrifice.  
> Squib?  Maybe.  But not returning him to the Muggle world 
> entirely.  He knows too much.  People know too much about him.  
> Wouldn't work.  
>  
> Now stripping him of all his powers (all of which came from Voldie 
> in this theory), that makes more sense to me.  He will have to deal 
> with the realization that without Voldies powers, he was never 
> special, never a real wizard.  His inability to do magic will be 
> hard enough to swallow, and he'll be capable to exist without it 
> due to growing up on Privet.
>  
> I think the loss of power will come to fruition via his murder of 
> Voldie. 
> Harry will SOMEHOW kill Voldie at the end of Book 7, and in the 
> process heal the scar on his forehead, and destroy his magical 
> powers in the process; and probably know about the loss of powers 
> before he does it.  That is his sacrifice.  No longer famous, 
> special, or magical.  Just normal and forgotten.  His sacrifice.
>  
> In the end he will get the family he wants, via the Weasley's and 
> his better half discovered in later books (no shipping wars here).  
> JKR will not turn her hero off completely to the world he knows, 
> the world she created.  There will be a sacrifice, but life or 
> muggle-hood it will not be.  IMHO.


Siriusly Snapey Susan:
Hmmmm.  Well I was going to disagree with you, Strongbad, but I ended 
up confused at the end, because I'm not sure disagree totally.  At 
first, when you said Harry got ALL his powers from Voldy and that, 
once they are gone, Harry will realize he was NEVER special....  To 
*that* I say I absolutely disagree.  On the contrary, I believe that 
Harry got *some* powers from Voldy but that he had some special gifts 
& talents himself from birth.  IMO he is special, indeed.

In the scenario (which I do think is somewhat likely) where Harry 
loses all his powers in the process of defeating/killing Voldy, Harry 
would certainly have made a HUGE sacrifice, but it doesn't have to be 
that he realizes he was a nobody, really.  In fact, I think he'll be 
able to be proud of the fact that he used both his own gifts and the 
abilities Voldy transferred to him *against* Voldy to defeat him.  
There would be a lot to be proud of in that!  And why would people 
forget him?  Even if he lost all powers, sacrificed his "magical 
self," why would people forget him?  On the contrary, I think bboy 
had it right in his little fic [98128] where Harry lost it all but he 
was HAPPY that the burden of fighting evil would finally be removed 
from him.  And I think he'd still be adored by many for his sacrifice.

Given this, I'm surprised to find that I do agree with your ending 
comments.  I don't think Harry will die, either, and I don't think 
he'll have to return to the Muggle world.  I think, a la bboy, that 
Harry will find a place within the WW but there will simply be lots 
of things he won't be able to do for himself...or will have to do a 
different way.

Siriusly Snapey Susan