Harry losing his powers (was: Your greatest fear . . .)

[kjirstem]

No: HPFGUIDX 121163


> SSSusan:
> Harry, valiantly choosing to sacrifice his own life in order to
kill 
> Voldy (somehow!?!) at the end, steps into a Voldycurse of some sort 
> and miraculously finds that -- by his very willingness to sacrifice 
> himself out of love for those others who've been fighting along
with 
> him & supporting him all these years (DD, Hagrid, Hermione, Ron, 
> Lupin, deadSirius, Neville, the Weasleys) -- he has managed both to 
> live and to reduce Voldy to dust.  [Yay!]
>  
> He has also managed to remove all magical ability from himself in 
> the process.  
<snip>
>  
> But the WW *will* still love him, appreciate what he did, what he 
> sacrificed for them.  So he'll still have their respect and 
> admiration.  AND he'll choose to stay in the WW -- with Ginny, of 
> course <g>.  There will be things he can't do, like fly :-( but 
> he'll have his Weasleys & Hermy & Ginny to do the routine magic for 
> him, so he'll still be included in the life and the world.
> 

kjirstem:

Harry losing his magic as a result of defeating Voldemort seems like a
possibility to me, but I tend to think that the result could be
MemoryCharmed!Harry back in the muggle world.  That wouldn't be worst
ending (though unhappy for Harry), we might be left uncertain whether
the whole thing happened but it would be better than the "it was only
a dream" scenario.  And then the rest of his life strange strangers in
cloaks would come up to him at odd times and shake his hand.

My worst fear is just that the ending of the last book will be a huge
unsatisfying let-down.  If that happens I'll lose the pleasure of
re-reading the books over and over again.