Luck and Greatness (was Dumbledore the General)

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 124215


Eggplant wrote:
"Harry defeats Voldemort 5 times and each time the accomplishment is
dismissed, they say he was just lucky (nobody is that lucky 5 times),
or they say yes Harry was more powerful than Voldemort but that was
only because of 
.., and then they supply a laundry list of reasons,
as if explaining why a person is great means the person is no longer
great."

Del replies:
I think the problem is that a good part of Harry's greatness comes
from pure luck, and many people don't like to consider luck as a
quality and as an integral part of greatness. However, it is quite
obvious *to me* that luck is indeed a necessary part of success and
greatness.

Harry is greater than most because on top of his courage and
determination to fight LV (and those are great, but not necessarily
greater than in many other people), he is also outrageously lucky in
battle and he's got special circumstances that nobody else has access
to (the Love Charm, the brother wand).

Now, of course, he's been "paying" for those special circumstances
ever since he was 15-month-old, and his luck doesn't work too well in
normal life...

Del