Harry's Training

[sylviampj]

No: HPFGUIDX 169416

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jo (Joanna)"
<twirliewirlie85 at ...> wrote:

> Like probably everyone else in this group I have been re-reading
> the books in preparation for book 7.

> Something struck me in book 6 which I think I thought about the
> first time but not so strongly.>>>>

Dear Jo,

This is an interesting post. I too have been re-reading HBP
recently and one thing struck me, - this has probably been
mentioned by a lot of other people already but it's the first
time I noticed it. At the beginning of HBP when DD fetches
Harry from the Dursleys' he says:

'I do not think you need worry about being attacked tonight.'
'Why not sir?'
'You are with me' said Dumbledore simply.

Then at the end of the chapter 26 when they are emerging from
the water after obtaining the (false) Horcrux Harry says:
'It's going to be all right, sir.... we're nearly there...I
can Apparate us both back..don't worry..

'I am not worried, Harry'said Dumbledore, his voice a little
stronger despite the freezing water. 'I am with you'.

It's like a reversal of roles and I sometimes wonder whether,
just as Voldemort marked Harry as his equal by transferring
some of his powers to him, so DD has somehow managed to transfer
some of his extraordinary powers to Harry, knowing (as I believe
he does) that he is shortly going to die.

Throughout the six books Harry never rates his own powers as a
wizard as being particularly remarkable. He faces Voldemort at
the end of each book but each time escapes and attributes it
each time to a combination of luck and help from other people.
Because the books are written so much from Harry's perspective
I've come to think that he simply modest and is in fact a much
more powerful wizard than he realises. He can obviously do a
Patronus which is very advanced magic and he is good enough to
teach the other pupils in DD's Army. Also his parents were both
very gifted wizards - his father finding out how to make himself
an animagus by the fifth year and his mother also being very
talented. DD comments on more than one occasion that Harry has
acquitted himself better than many adult wizards. Snape of
course says he is mediocre but Snape dislikes Harry and also
if Snape is as I believe on the right side then he would not
want Voldemort to realise the extent of Harry's powers.

Sylvia.