[HPforGrownups] What makes LV so powerful?

[Natalia Flerova]

No: HPFGUIDX 169101

2007/5/20, Tandra <tkjones9 at yahoo.com>:
> This has been gnawing at me since I just finished the 6th book yet
> again. I know LV hunts down power and finds out stuff that most other
> wizards don't care to find out, but I don't get why he was so powerful
> by the time DD met him in the orphanage. It seemed obvious to DD that
> he wasn't an ordinary wizard, but where did all this power come from?
> Because he was an heir of Slytherin? Is there anything that leads us
> to believe that Slytherin was all that powerful? I just don't see why
> he is all so powerful. Can anyone help me there?
>
> TKJ
>
>

Cassy:

Probably it has nothing to do with Slytherin (after all, his other
descendants were not at all impressive). I think it is simply an
innate talent, a result of very complex combination of different
factors, not all of which are genetic. After all, we have Harry, who
is very powerful as well (though we don't know how much of his
abilities came from LV) and Hermione, who is both clever and able,
though muggle-born.