Harry and Voldermort's powers

[Jayne]

No: HPFGUIDX 182555

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nirupama76" <nirupama76 at ...> 
wrote:
>
> <SNIP>
> Jayne wrote:
> > 
> > Just delurking to make a comment here. 
> > Was Harry that talented anyway. He had a lot of courage and 
> > determination, but Hermonie was much cleverer than Harry in 
> picking 
> > up spells etc.
> 
> Niru writes:
> 
> Oh! Undoubtedly Hermione was cleverer. The cleverest witch Hogwarts 
> had seen in many, many years. But Harry wasn't bad himself. He 
> mastered the Patronus charm at the age of 13 (just an example). So 
> he is definitely powerful. Plus he's no dunce. If nothing, at least 
> his OWL results said that he is fairly talented. Mostly Es... and 
he 
> beat Hermione in DADA with an O. But, as far as what was most 
> important for Harry it was other things. Courage, determination, 
his 
> immense ability to love, etc.
> 
Yes of course. I was not belittling Harry , just that there were 
others just as clever as him.


> - Niru (who thinks Hermione's intelligence is so great it makes 
> people around her appear a little stupid even if they pretty smart 
> themselves)
>
Yes That's also true about Hermione.

Jayne