Is Harry a Metamorphmagus?

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 116627


Vivamus:
 
> Here's an additional piece of *possible* evidence for Harry being a
> metamorphmagus: Harry's hair is naturally ruffled like his father, 
but
> James' hair wasn't naturally ruffled; it was ruffled because he 
kept it that
> way.

Finwitch:

Or James just *pretended* that. Willingly at first, and then it was 
second nature... But oh well.

Vivamus:

>  Could it be that the year old child knew enough of how his father
> looked that he was subconsciously making himself look like his 
father?   How
> about all the comments he gets from people who tell him he looks
> *extraordinarily* like James, but with his mother's eyes?  Maybe 
that's not
> just genetics.

Finwitch:

Think little Harry saw a LOT of his father when they were hiding... 
He kept trying to remember his parents (and got only the green light 
until Hagrid told him the truth).

Of all those comments - Ollivander says the usual comment of Harry's 
eyes, but NOT about his father's looks. He talks about their wands, 
though. I think Ollivander's eyesight is very peculiar.

Vivamus: 
> Another thing:  Why aren't Harry's nearsighted eyes correctable 
with magic?
> His father wore glasses, didn't he?  I know, we haven't heard 
anything about
> nearsightedness correction spells, but made up spells are appearing 
all the
> time -- just look at the Weasley twins and the Marauder's Map.  
Perhaps
> Harry *needs* his eyes to be that way.

Finwitch:

Apparently they can't. Harry's eyes are naturally near-sighted, so 
there's no illness in them, really, and certainly not a curse. 
Dumbledore has half-moon glasses, McGonagall has square ones, Harry 
has round ones, and even Rita Skeeter has glasses. And then there's 
Moody and his Magical Eye. (though a "paranoid?" man like him would 
certainly prefer to be able to see what's behind his back).

For some reason I think that trouble in a Muggle-sense gives them a 
more keen magic-sense. (something I think goes to extremes with 
Ollivander. I think he's blind to Muggle light, but he can sense 
magic.). I also think that eyes, being the mirror of the soul, are 
somewhat magical.

> Vivamus:
> I know this is OT, but I felt there were a number of things in that 
first
> book, particularly in the beginning, that were indicative of the 
book being
> a standalone, with not everything being planned out for a series.
> McGonagall's reading of the map on a muggle street, but especially 
her
> asking DD how he knew it was her, don't quite fit the rest of the 
series.

Finwitch:

Well, they WERE well away from Hogwarts (where recognising Professor 
McGonagall in her cat form would not be that surprising.) Also, it IS 
and evening and Dumbledore was quite aways from her... She was 
recognised from *afar*, in a place where he'd not expect to see her.

Of course she asks, if not for any other reason, to know why Vernon 
stared at her. How did she blow her cover. And it is that what 
Dumbledore tells her as well with that. "I've never seen a cat sit so 
stiffly".

and her response: "You'd be stiff, too..." obviously to keep her 
dignity on *her* being unrecognisable.


> Vivamus:
> Charms, maybe?   Good like his mother in that area?
> 
> > He made the sweater shrink.
> 
> Transfiguration?  No, Charms again -- the opposite of an 
engorgement charm.
>  
> > Finwitch:
> > How did he 'jump' onto the school roof? Harry's description sounds
> > more like flying than apparition...? <snip>
> > 
> > Harry's also VERY fast, broomstick or no.
> 
> Vivamus:
> Maybe that's related to his flying onto the roof?
>  

Finwitch:
Dunno- or Harry's flying is a combination of a charm and wearing 
clothes WAY too big for him. His clothes probably worked like-- well, 
like a kite?
> 
> Vivamus:
> If Harry had the full ability of Tonks, imagine what he could do 
with that
> in fighting V.  It's too much.

Is it? I've read several series of fantasy where the heroes have, in 
theory at least, the ability to turn into any animal at will. And 
even so, they still need co-operation etc. to do what must be done.

 And anyway, I'm not saying Harry wouldn't need to learn how to 
control it. (And actually, as I'm imagining it now, it's not exactly 
animagi either, but close enough).

You know... What if, in order to save someone, Harry throws himself 
in front of AK, in the end battle. And it is because of that he 
learns that he can turn into a phoenix (saves his life, because he 
does that reborn out of ashes- thing).

If that ends Book 6:

Imagine Harry being sent to Dursleys, again, after being restored to 
his human self by McGonagall or Dumbledore or Hermione. All 7th book, 
he keeps changing shape every now and then, as he's not able to 
control it. Yes, at Privet Drive, too. Imagine that.

Then, at the END of the whole series:

Harry will remain as a phoenix permanently. (Someone tells the others 
that it was inevitable, and that all phoenixes come to be born that 
way).

Finwitch