Harry's Defining Qualities (Was Re: Book 7 predictions)

[Eustace_Scrubb]

No: HPFGUIDX 98267

Kneasy wrote:
Defining quality? There's  really only one - he's lucky. My word he
is.
 
 Consider the times  he's been in mortal danger and how he escapes.
 Quirrell going to pieces; Fawkes, a snapped off Basilisk fang and an
 old diary; a conflict of wands; DD turning up out of the blue. None 
 of those events could have been forseen, logically deduced or counted
 on. Each time something outside his control came to his rescue. 
 He got lucky.
 
 And luck is a quality; not for nothing did Napoleon ask when    
considering  senior promotions "Is he lucky?"
 
 Kneasy

Eustace_Scrubb:
Oh, he's lucky all right, I agree with you there.  But he had to do
something with his luck and not everyone would have done so.  That's
what I mean by resourcefulness in desperate situations.

When Fawkes dropped the diary into Harry's lap, "without thinking,
without considering" he grabbed the fang off the floor and stabbed it
into the diary.  It was luck (or was it?) that Fawkes dropped the
diary, it was luck that the near-fatal fang was at Harry's feet.  But
it was Harry who instinctively put 2 and 2 together and realized this
was his only chance to escape Riddle.  My guess is that most other
wizards, age 12 or not, would have been dead before they made that
deduction.

He has luck, in the sense that some of the Norse heroes have luck.  In
part, it's given to him.  But he has to make something of it too.

Cheers,

Eustace_Scrubb