The Scar

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 160260

bboyminn wrote:
> 
> Here is where I think you are wrong. Harry would not be
> a Squib. I would be a once magically powerful person who
> made the ultimate sacrific to save the wizard world from
> oppression and tyranny. That is quite different from 
> someone who is born without magic and never accomplishes
> anything magical in their lifetime. 
> 
> Harry would be the Hero of the Wizard World, the one who 
> defeated Voldemort more times than any person dead or 
> alive. Dumbledore said it himself, that Harry had acted
> bravely, heroically, and with great magical skill; though
> as we all know, he also is very lucky, but none the less
> that does not diminish his accomplishment; past, present,
> and future.
> 
> Harry would still have a very special place in the wizard
> world because while he was magical, he did great magical
> deeds. <snip>

> Don't get me wrong, his life as a non-magical person 
> would be very very bittersweet, yet even with the 
> undeniable 'bitter', there would be plenty of sweetness 
> to be had. It would be a tough life, but it could still 
> be a rewarding one. Especially if the wizard world 
> continues to appreciate the great sacrifice Harry has 
> made for them.
> 
> I'm not even convinced Harry will lose his magic power, 
> but it is a theory, and I was responding within the 
> framework of that premise. There are plenty of 
> Muggle/Magic marriages in the wizard world, and they 
> seem to work. They seem to reach some compromise between
> the two worlds. I don't see any reason why Harry can't 
> do the same.

Carol responds:
I can see Harry losing the powers that he acquired from Voldemort, but
why would he lose those he was born with (and we know that he was born
magical because his name was written down by the Hogwarts quill at the
moment of his birth)?

Also, I don't know where you get the idea that there are plenty of
Muggle marriages to witches or wizards. I know of three: Tom Riddle
Sr. to Merope Gaunt (disastrous); Tobias Snape to Eileen Prince
(apparently unhappy); and the Finnegans (impossible to say, but Mr.
Finnegan received "a bit of a nasty shock," did not show up at the QWC
(surely as a Muggle who knew about the WW and was married to a witch,
he should have received special permission), and seems to have no say
in Seamus's education (he has to convince his witch mother to allow
him to continue attending Hogwarts in OoP; his father is not
mentioned). JKR has said offlist that Remus Lupin is a Halfblood, but
it seems likely that his parents, like Harry's, are a Muggleborn and a
Pureblood. Tonks, too, is the child of a Muggleborn and a pureblood. I
don't know of any other Muggle/witch or wizard marriages besides the
three I listed, and no indisputably happy ones.

On a sidenote, the Squib Arabella Figg seems to have been married at
some point (she's referred to as "Mrs." but we never see a husband).
Since she lives among Muggles, she may have been married to one. Yet
even she belongs more to the WW than to Little Whinging, as indicated
by her part-Kneazle cats, her idioms, her knowledge of magic she can't
perform and of Dementors, and her connection with Dumbledore. ("Who
doesn't know Dumbledodore?") It must have been one very strange marriage.

As for loss of powers, we've only seen it happen temporarily through
unrequited love. (Tonks lost only one power and got it back; Merope
succumbed to despair and lost everything.) Assuming that Harry doesn't
succumb to despair (and how likely is that?) I don't think he'll lose
his powers (except Parseltongue; the connection to the now-dead
Voldemort; and possession if, as I suspect, he has that power along
with the others).

Carol, who doesn't see how a boy who was born a wizard could become
either a Squib or a Muggle and thinks that JKR will compensate her
hero for his sufferings by letting him really live (as the Prophecy
implies)