Draco is quite the wizard/Is Ginny a powerful witch?/Some Felix Felis

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Eddie wrote< SPOILERS FROM Books 5 & 6 AHEAD --
 
 Has anybody noticed that Draco is a pretty talented wizard?  He made
 it into the 6th year Potions and DADA classes, manages the Protean
 charm on the coins to communicate with the Death Eaters (which Terry
 Boot says is N.E.W.T level spellwork), manages to fix the vanishing
 cabinet, disapparates when on the run at the end of HBP... and I'm not
 sure what else.
 
 Sure, there are extenuating circumstances: Snape coddled Draco through
 Potions, the Protean charm idea came from Hermione (although Hermione
 said she got the idea from the Death Eaters marks), it took all year
 for Draco to fix the cabinet.  Nevertheless, he _DID_ these things.>>

DA Jones writing now:

I did.  Draco is very poweful. It is also implied in COS that  Draco is  second  in his class only to Hermione. He is right-up there in his year.

Now to switch topics. How good a witch is Ginny. JKR keeps throwing this remarkable Bat Bogey Hex in our face (an intentionally pun) but it has always been offstage. Harry has never seen it happen. Why? Is it possible that in some way the hex is dark magic. Did Tom Riddle teach it to her in the same way Harry has learned spells from the Half-Blood Prince. It seems the sort of poweful but fun seeming hex Tom would teach an 11 yr old to win her confidence. 

Also Ginny is supposed to be "powerful" but in both battles we've seen so far (in the Dept of Mysteries and at Hogwarts) Ginny does poorly. If you read carefully the scene in the brain room in OOP it is apparent that Ginny's presence suprised the Death Eaters but instead JKR had her panic over Ron and doesn't hex any of them even thugh she has the drop, so to say. A broken ankle is not inacapacitation enough to keep you from hexing someone from the floor. Harry has done it before. 

In the Battle of Hogwarts Ginny would have been toasted by Alectus one of the weaker DA if not for Harry's help and she had the Felix Felis. The language during the battle doesn't seem to imply that Ron had it and how could Hermione and Luna have been so unlucky as to be tricked by Snape if they had taken the Felis. It is implied that it was lucky by Lupin "or otherwise Snape would have killed them, but is this true?" 

MY guess is the only one Ron and Hermione gave the Felix Felis is was Ginny and it didn't seem to help her much. I think JKR is placing a red hearing with the Bat Bogey Hex. Maybe Ginny isn't menat to be a poweful witch at all. Right know at least I'd prob vote for Luna as the most powerful of the three girls. She is certainly the most calm headed.     

What do you think? 

DA Jones
 
 


 
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