Your greatest fear . . .

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 121259


Siriusly Snapey Susan wrote:
> I've seen several people who have remarked that they'd just NOT like
this scenario, and I see their point (though, for me, I can still see
it working out).  So I'd like to ask phoenixgod and others who just do
not want to see Harry lose his powers, would you be okay with his
losing his life instead?  In other words, in your minds, would death 
be a better fate for Harry than life w/o his magic?  <snip>

Carol responds:
That's a very hard question, about on a par with asking me whether I'd
rather be suffocated or poisoned. Neither, thank you! But I think that
Harry might just prefer being murdered to being Squibbed. No
Quidditch, no career as an auror, nothing but horrible memories and no
future worth living. (Yes, he has money and won't have to be poor like
Lupin, but I'm sure he'd rather earn his own, and as someone pointed
out, he hasn't been educated as a Muggle, either, even if he wanted to
go back to that world and, say, attend Oxford. Not exactly Harry's
style, I admit.) JKR says that he'd like a career full of action, and
I'm sure any Muggle career offering action would seem tame after what
he's seen of the WW. What he really wants, all he wants as far as I
can see, is to be a normal wizard teenager. He can still do that at
seventeen, "of age" or not, if he loses only the powers he gained from
Voldemort and not those natural to him.

What I want to know, SSS, is why you think he might lose the powers he
was born with when his parents were a witch and a wizard. Is it
possible to *become* a Squib if you're not born one? We haven't, IIRC,
seen anything comparable with any other character who hasn't been
Crucio'd into insanity or hit with a memory charm--and I'm hoping that
neither the Longbottoms nor Gilderoy Lockhart foreshadows Harry's fate.

Carol