Wandless Harry and his powers

[lagattalucianese]

No: HPFGUIDX 146293

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> Also, JKR is really stretching the bounds of credulity by making 
Harry
> appear to be a very ordinary wizard (even incapable of doing
> non-verbal spells, and useless at occlumency and leglimency), yet 
one
> who is supposed to have been marked as an equal by Voldemort. It 
does
> not add up, at the very least Harry should have some extra-ordinary
> skills that would make him stand out when compared to his peers. Yes
> ability to talk to snakes is in him, but he has no special skills 
when
> it comes to combating dark magic or even for that matter 
successfully
> overcoming the defenses of other dark wizards, so how is he supposed
> to fight the most powerful dark wizard of all?
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> Harry
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La Gatta Lucianese:

If you have just finished reading OotP, you surely remember Harry 
himself expressing a similar opinion when Hermione and Ron press him 
to teach the other students DADA, because he is the most qualified 
person.  Having lost the argument, he goes ahead and 
trains "Dumbledore's Army", and does, IIRC, a pretty competent job of 
it. So maybe he's more talented that either he or JKR lets on.