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

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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 responded:
> That's a very hard question, about on a par with asking me whether 
> I'd rather be suffocated or poisoned. Neither, thank you! 
<snip>
> What I want to know, SSS, is why you think he might lose the powers 
> he was born with....

SSSusan:
Um.  Well.  I don't know. :-)
Seriously, we were talking about our FEARS for the end of the series, 
and I am afraid that JKR has decided to either kill Harry off or have 
him sacrifice *something* in the course of vanquishing Voldy.  So his 
losing his magical powers is just a possibility which has come up 
here several times.  


Carol also said:
> 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.

SSSusan:
I agree wholeheartedly, and Harry's being just a normal teenage 
wizard is my *wish* for the series conclusion.  Frankly, I'd not 
thought of what you're suggesting -- that Harry might lose only those 
powers he gained from Voldy at GH.  We don't know the extent of those 
powers at this point, though there's been lots of speculation about 
it.  All we know for certain is the Parseltongue skill.  

But this idea of his losing only those powers he gained from Voldy is 
something I find quite satisfactory!  It *could* be that he gained 
very little, that he was going to be a pretty talented & powerful 
wizard on his own, thankyouverymuch.  It's also possible that he 
gained a *lot* of powers from Voldy, and he might be left 
significantly weakened.  But I'd still take either of these 
possibilities for Harry over his dying *or* his losing all magical 
abilities.

Siriusly Snapey Susan