Suspension of disbelief - Being dependent

[horridporrid03]

No: HPFGUIDX 182548

> >>Betsy Hp:
> > <snip>
> > But there's not something so uniquely different about his powers 
> > that it explains why the WW had no choice but to cave to his     
> > appearance and await a "special hero" to save them.
> > <snip>

> Carol responds:
> <snip of massive amount of canon>
> You stated: "But there's not something so uniquely different about 
> his powers that it explains why the WW  had no choice but to cave   
> to his appearance and await a "special hero" to save them."
>
> I just countered that statement with canon. Possession,            
> Parseltongue, invasive Legilimency, Dark magic in various forms    
> (including Inferi, Bathilda!Nagini, potions with no antidotes,      
> curses with no countercurse, potions that use the blood, body, and 
> bone of others to restore a body that has been destroyed,           
> Horcruxes). And, of course, he and his followers do indeed make    
> widespread use of the Unforgiveable Curses, though I would hardly   
> call them "the magic that everyone else has" since most Wizards    
> would not use them.
> 
> Rather than snipping my examples and sweeping them aside as the same
> magic that everyone else uses, how about showing me some examples of
> other wizards who use that same kind of magic?

Betsy Hp:
I'll snip where I want to snip, thank you. <g>

But okay, you're absolutely right.  Voldemort is a unique and special 
wizard.

Now I'm curious:  Why Harry?


> >>Carol, who has used hours looking up canon to support her        
> arguments and hopes that Betsy will quote some canon of her own to 
> counter them

Betsy Hp:
But, whenever someone reads a Harry Potter book, God kills a kitten! 
<bg>