CHAPDISC: HBP5, An Excess of Phlegm

[amiabledorsai]

No: HPFGUIDX 144226

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lagattalucianese" <katmac at k...>
wrote:
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> > 
> > The suppresion of Tonks's Animagus powers is especially
> > interesting--will a similar problem afflict Ginny? Hermione?  
> > 
> > Harry?
> > 
> > Amiable Dorsai
> >
> Are Ginny and Hermione and Harry animagi? For that matter, is Tonks? 
> We know she's a metamorphmagus, but that isn't the same thing, is it?

Amiable Dorsai:

Ye gods--Metamorphmagus, not Animagus.  I swear sometimes I'm going
senile.  

No, my point was point was that unrequited love (or, perhaps,
depression, no matter the cause) seems to have a bad effect on ones
magic. I'm wondering if Harry's and Ginny's breakup will have such an
effect on either of them.

Supposing for the moment that it's not just unrequited love, but any
form of depression (see: Dementors) that can play hob with a witch or
wizard's magical abitities, could this be an explanation for Harry's
on again, off again, career as a magical prodigy?

Everyone (including Hermione!) is impressed by Harry's ability to cast
a Patronus at an early age, but he has trouble learning a simple
Summoning Charm.  Likewise, he's good enough at most aspects of DADA
to coach students older than himself, but he has trouble learning to
cast spells wordlessly.

Harry's parents were both exceptionally talented magic users, and, on
his good days, Harry seems to have inherited that.  On his bad days...

So Harry's set himself (and Ginny) up for a bit of sorrow.  Will that
turn out to have a bad effect on his and/or her magic?  Can you see
this as a subplot for book 7?

Amiable Dorsai