Harry's Swimming Skills?

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No: HPFGUIDX 184134

Geoff wrote:

>Now, the scene in HBP is about two years later so it is quite 
>possible that Harry might have improved his swimming. In 
>the HBP example, he has to swim a short distance in the sea 
>and the main problems are his waterlogged clothes and the 
>coldness of the water.

Joey:

The distance is short, yes, but when it comes to depth, swimming in 
the *sea* would have been a challenge still, I suppose. As his 
swimming skills were discussed in particular in GoF 2nd task (so 
much so that he even sprouted gills using something called, IIRC, 
gillyweed), I was wondering about it when I read this scenes in HBP. 

As you have said, we might have to go beyond the canon evidence and 
assume that he might have improved his swimming in 2 years. I also 
had a feeling that swimming with DD might have made a difference to 
him (despite the fact that DD had already begun to swim with his 
wand held between his teeth by the time Harry joined). 

Geoff wrote:

>In the DH scenario, we are told that the frozen pool was a 
>small one. nd his neck. The suggestion seems to be that it 
>was not very deep and he did not have to go very deeply
>under water to reach the sword. 

Joey: Yeah, I agree. This tallies with the correct GoF quote you 
have helped me with, Geoff.