The late Harry Potter

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No: HPFGUIDX 130314

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "deborahhbbrd" <hubbada at u...> wrote:


> And as for Harry,
> my best bet is still that he survives as a mortal being but without
> his magical talent - becomes a Squib, I suppose. And that would be a
> kind of death. But certainly gentler than the real thing, and
> something that could very well move the plot along to its conclusion:
> something like: only by Harry doing a Prospero and renouncing that
> rough magic can Voldemort lose his own power.

What could possibly be gentle about Harry becoming either an outcast
or a severely handicapped person in the world he has come to love?
Never be able to ride a broom, no more quidditch, never be able to
have an equal relationship with his friends because he cannot even do
the simplest of magic any more? What kind of futere would he have?
Become the next Filch? Or go back to the muggle world with no education? 

I've seen stories where the hero looses his magic. But what happened
was that he became just an ordinary person again. Not something less.
And that is what would happen if Harry would loose his magic. 

Besides: what rough magic? That would imply that Harry's magic only
comes from LV, and that he was born as a squib. Now squibs are
extremely rare according to canon, so why would this little boy be
one? I can see him loosing the ability to speak parceltonque or any
other powers LV gave him. But magic belongs to Harry. As an ordinary
person in the WW.

Gerry