Is Harry a Metamorphmagus?

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 117196


Carol:
> As you probably know, I'm behind on posting, so maybe someone else 
has
> posted the quote, but I haven't seen it farther down the thread, so
> here goes. It's in a Sugarquill interview dated 20 October 1999
> (mysteriously filed under 2000 at the Leaky Cauldron):
> 
> http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/articles/1999/1099-
pressclubtransc.html

-snip the quote - (and I tell you, it's also in Lexicon). 

> So clearly Harry is not going to become an animagus (no indication
> whether that applies to Ron or Hermione, but they haven't shown any
> inclination in that direction). Thw wording of the question ("Will
> Harry ever turn into a shape-changer," suggests that he won't 
become a
> metamorphmagus, either, but JKR's quick correction of the 
terminology
> casts a smidgen of doubt on that reading.
> 
> However, as others have argued, Harry's accidental magic has only
> altered his appearance once, and it didn't alter his apparent
> identity; it only restored his normal appearance. So I don't think
> Harry has any inborn skill as a metamorphmagus and the argument that
> the doesn't have time to become an animagus applies to becoming a
> maetmorphmagus using spells or potions as well.
> 
> I think we'll see more of Tonks in this role, but something 
altogether
> different and unexpected from Harry.

Finwitch:

Restored. Healed?

Anyway, this thing about 'becoming metamorhpmagus' - it's something 
one is born with, though it apparently requires practice to control 
it. Still, I wouldn't put it past Harry to uncontrollably use 
metamorphmagi to extend his arm or something like that. (I wonder - 
has he done it to catch the Snitch yet and no one noticed, because it 
was so fast?)

On the other note, becoming a phoenix:

Harry seems to *restore* his appearance quite often. For a phoenix to 
be reborn out of ashes, it's ultimate restorance of ones body.

And, Harry's also to be said fast, natural flier (again, sounds like 
a phoenix).

Harry also shows being able to move somewhat heavy loads (how far he 
took his trunk alone in PoA before waving down the Knight Bus?)

His wand-core is that of a phoenix. (what else WOULD do if he's to be 
one himself?)

Apparently Harry still has things to learn, but... I think he will be 
a phoenix. And that's not ANIMAGI - it's what he will be after he 
dies, and in a way, his soul has always BEEN a phoenix.

Finwitch