[HPforGrownups] Protective curses on horcuxes

[Karen]

No: HPFGUIDX 150820


On Apr 10, 2006, at 5:33 PM, Rebecca Scalf wrote:

>
>
> Witherwing:
> If Harry does get additional training, I don't think
> we will get to read much about it... Only one more
> book to go, after all.
>
> I think Harry already has all he needs. How could he
> possibly have known a basilisk fang had the power to
> destroy a horcrux?
>
> Here is the quote:
> "Then, without thinking, without considering, as
> though he had meant to do it all along, Harry seized
> the basilisk fang on the floor next to him and plunged
> it straight into the heart of the book." -HPCS p.322
>
> It's his instinct, isn't it?

kchuplis:

I think this is somewhat true. I think in some situations, Harry  
needs things pointed out, but in others, when he just DOES he gets it  
and gets it bigtime. I'm reminded of the beginning of PoA. The  
exploding glass in Aunt Marges hand; the (basically) exploding Aunt  
Marge, magically exploding open the cupboard containing his trunk.  
Though it was unspoken magic (and as a side bar, I wonder if  
unspoken, wandless magic is a bit more difficult to pin down than  
wand work), it was VERY specific and effective.  A result of  
uncontrolled emotions? Yes. But uncontrolled magic, no.

In fact, I sometimes have this image of Harry just being able to  
think "get that DE behind me" and blowing them off their feet without  
even thinking. He's already so much more comfortable in his knowledge  
in book six (I think specifically of his threatening to hex anyone  
not really there for quidditich tryouts as though it were breathing),  
that just getting out and actually doing instead of worrying about  
doing it right will be the unleashing of Harry. Sometimes, "proper  
learning" fetters us.