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

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> Antosha:
> 
> I'll buy that. ;-)
> 
> But also Luna. And Neville. And possibly some of the other DA members and Weaselys 
and 
> Order folk. As I've pointed out here before, I think that's part of the point of the 
expansion 
> of Harry's core group in OotP. To make Harry's reliance on Ron and Hermione less... 
> precious. 
> 
> To coin a Tolkienian phrase.
> 
> I don't see Harry choosing to loose his memory, like the Tommy Lee Jones character in 
> Men in Black. The WW is too much his home, in a way that the Muggle world has never 
> been...

Antosha again:

Oh, and I totally buy an ending in which Harry dies, sacrificing himself to save his friends. 
But then I would be really shocked if Ron and/or Hermione bought it too. It just seems like 
too much of a bummer... and it would diminish the actual sacrifice, storytelling-wise.