Harry's Characterization (was: Satisfaction of the story to date )

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Carol wrote:
> Watching Harry grow up is like watching a son or grandson or nephew
> grow up. You wish that they'd stay small and young and innocent, but
> they can't. They have to grow up and face the challenges of 
adulthood,
> and to do so they must first undergo the trials (Experience) of
> adolescence--homework, mean teachers, hormones, jealousy, anger,
> prejudice, illness, injury, death of beloved friends or relatives, 
and
> all the rest. They have to learn that even the most trusted and
> respected adults are imperfect, that all human beings make mistakes,
> that some problems can't be solved and others they must solve for
> themselves. In the WW, those lessons include facing dangers that are
> not part of the RW. Everything Harry has learned about the WW, from
> hippogriffs to house-elves, is a rite of passage, preparing him for
> adulthood in a world very different from a middle-class Muggle
> neighborhood in Surrey. But only knowledge of Voldemort and an
> understanding of himself can prepare him for the ultimate challenge 
of
> Book 7.
> 
> Carol, who firmly believes that Harry will survive the confrontation
> with life, limbs, and innate magical powers intact, losing only the
> powers he acquired from the by-then-dead Voldemort
>

Jenni from Alabama responds: I agree with you Carol. I really think 
that Harry will come out of this alive. The only thing I'm not 
completely sure of is if he will lose the powers that Voldemort 
inadvertantly passed to him. 

I think he'll keep them. Since I don't think that the power that 
Voldemort accidentally passed to Harry is a soul-bit I don't see why 
they would disappear when Voldemort dies. I think Harry will have 
those abilities until the day he dies - hopefully at a very, very old 
age.

Jenni