The Scar - 'All or Nothing' Clarification

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 160287

Magpie:
> *(snip)*  I think Harry would be a second-class citizen, part of a 
group that's been casually and consistently considered inferior 
throughout the series. (I also actually do think the WW is easily 
short-sighted enough to forget Harry's sacrifice for them, though 
that's not necessarily here nor there. They can respect the idea of 
HP while still considering him to be not what he once was without 
magic.)

Ceridwen:
There might be a danger to leaving him powerless and visible.  If 
younger witches and wizards see that this is what happens to Harry 
Potter when he tries to save the WW, the loss may be too much for 
them to contemplate.  There will be fewer magical youths stepping up 
to do anything even ***remotely*** akin to what Harry did.  If he 
lost all of his powers, the Ministry might want to hide him away, not 
advertise his disability, and make a mystery of the Hero.

Magpie:
> I don't see how one could define him so much through competence, 
show him growing up by mastering magical skills and considering 
magical careers, give non-magical people the role they have 
(including the difficulties presented in all Magical/Muggle marriages 
hinted at from Merope/Tom all the way down to the Witch using her 
Muggle husband for a table- though at least all of those Muggles had 
a place in the Muggleworld), and then end it by taking away Harry's 
magic as if this is a life prepared for in the text.

Ceridwen:
Harry hasn't had any preparation at all for living in the Muggle 
World.  He hasn't had a decent Muggle education since he was ten 
years old.  He has no job skills and no contacts to help him get a 
job or a place to stay.  Aside from his yearly visit to the Dursleys, 
he has no contact with the world in which he was raised.  And the 
Dursleys apparently kept him out of the fashion trends as it was - 
he'll be nearly as ridiculously clad as Bob Ogden was when he visited 
the Gaunts.  He would be out of place, and he would be missing his 
former world.  In such a case, I could very well see a Frodo-like 
ending for him, so different from his world that he had to leave it.

Ceridwen.