harry potter, not very good at anything?

Question

me and my friend were talking, and we both agree that harry is basically mediocre at life. if not for incredible luck and better friends, he would be long dead. he doesnt really have a good personality or anything really. but maybe thats what its all about, the average guy going above and beyond? idk, i still think he'll die in book 7. email me with theories if you want

Answer 1

Perhaps. I always thought he was rather MaryJane-like, although with teenaged angst.
And I hope he does die in the end and Neville is the savior, or something. Neville lost a lot, too. And Harry's scar should be a horocrux. And Harry should die so, years down the road, no fan-author can make fanfiction.

Answer 2

actually i agree with snape's view in the sixth volume

but i also agree that it's all about a normal person achieving the beyond

almost all the teen books serials and novels employ this plot only atleast since the last decade

but that is the thing that has made harry potter lovable,how he faces such a responsiblity when he even did not get a chance to decide if he wants to take it,he never liked loosing his parents or being stared at

he is well in quidditch coz it's in his genes nad he is very much intelligent to choose his own type of friends

what i want to say is he is like any other good human being who is capable enough to take any calamtiy in his hands when he faces it

Answer 3

I agree- he does have incredible luck and very good friends! Both he and Ron would surely have died a million times over if not for Hermione.

His personality is that of someone who is standoffish and afraid to get close. REmember, he spent his entire life with his horrible relatives who treated him like a slave. He is also a loner. He is the only person to survive the rampage of Voldemort.

I dont think he will die in book 7. I have heard rumors of Hermione dying.

I like the books well enough, but there are millions of other fantasy books that I like a WHOLE lot better.

Answer 4

Blah...blah...blah....you are just imitating Snape. I'll tell you what Harry is good is. He is the bravest in Hogwarts, extremely loyal and has a knack of picking the right people to associate with. He never loses his cool and can hold his head in the most dangerous circumstances. He is pretty brilliant at defence against the dark arts and quidditch. The best part about him is that he is no super human being. He is an extraordinary boy with very human flaws

Answer 5

I won't lie. The only particularily good thing he's at is quidditch and producing a patronus. I think that's what makes us want to read it he is an average kid who just happens to defy everything. I compleley agree that with ron and hermione he never would have gotten the sorcerors stone. If Fawkes didn't show up he wouldn't killed the baslisk. Without hermione he never wouldv'e saved himself. Without Moody he'd have lost the triwizard tournamnet and died. Without the other 5 kids the department of mysteries would have killed him. Dumbledore that's all it was in the 6th so yeah he is average but his life is so exciting we love it!

Answer 6

Not very good at anything? Not quite. First of all, you've got the fact that he's a natural on a broom. Not only that, but he's able to locate small moving objects while in flight, such as the golden snitch and Neville's rememberall. In fact it was Harry's innate skill with a broom and his ability to spot and catch the rememberall before it fell to the ground and was shattered that caught McGonagal's eye. This lead to him becoming not only the Gryffindor quidditch team's seeker, but also the youngest player in a century.

Second is Harry's skill in Defense Against the Dark Arts which leads to him teaching this area to others in book five. Ron and Hermione helped him train for the Triwizard Cup by helping him learn most of the spells that were beyond what a fourth year should have known. Yet despite all their help, they still were greatly lacking in knowledge when it came to actually knowing these spells.

Ron it is easier to understand why he's lacking a bit in this area as Ron is, after all, Ron when it comes to learning. He does learn and he does study. But like most in his class, he doesn't pay as close attention to what is being taught as Hermione does. She's virtually a sponge when it comes to learning this stuff. So when Dumbledore's Army was formed, she should have been just as able as Harry to teach most of the DADA spells. But yet she needs Harry to teach her just as much as everyone else in the DA.

Third, Harry's ability to produce a coporeal patronus. Lupin taught Harry the patronus charm at age thirteen, explaining to him that the patronus charm was way beyond Ordinary Wizarding Level. He also explains that the patronus is something many qualified wizard's have difficulty producing Harry has marginal success with it during his training with Lupin. Lupin makes mention that Harry's ability to produce an indistinct patronus after just four weeks of training is a major accomplisment for a thirteen year old.

It is only when Harry and Hermione use the time turner to go back in time and save Buckbeak and Sirius that Harry finally knows he can not only cast patronus charm the patronus charm succesfully but knows it is a coporeal patronus that takes the shape of a stag. The only times between then and his training with Lupin that he cast the charm was first during the Gryffindor-Ravenclaw quidditch match when Malfoy and some other Slytherins pretended to be dementor's in order to pull a trick on Harry. At this time all Harry saw an enormous silver-white object erupt from his wand but didn't pay attention to what it was, so it could have been a copereal patronus or it could have been an indistinct patronus. The second time was when Harry, Hermione, and Sirius were being attacked by the dementors. Harry could only produce a feeble patronus that did little more than hold a dementor off for a little bit at this point.

At his trial in the fifth book, Amelia Bones, who is the head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, takes intrest in the fact that someone as young as Harry can produce a patronus. Harry then takes the knowledge of the patronus charm and teaches it to the DA. Again, he's such a good teacher that some are able to themselves produce coporeal patronus just from Harry's teachings. These include Ron (a Jack Russel terrier), Hermione (an otter), and Cho (a swan).

Harry's teaching abilities in the DADA area may best be seen in Neville Longbottom. As McGonagal said of Neville he just lacked confidence. In most of his classes he was so intimidated by the teachers that he was behind most, if not all, of his class. But in the DA with Harry as his teacher, he's already starting to improve even before they learn of the escape of the Death Eaters from Azkaban. Neville admits that he never could learn the expelliarmus spell from anyone else who had tried to teach it to him. After the Death Eaters escaped, Neville begins working even harder to learn everything Harry teaches the group and it is said that only Hermione learned the shielding charm faster than he did. Had it been someone other than Harry, there seems a question as to if he could have made the kind of improvements he did.

Answer 7

He would be a normal kid if Voldemort hadn't tried to kill him, I don't call that luck. If you look at the prophesy you will see that He got powers and a window into the most evil dark wizard to ever exist, and that is not mediocre.

Answer 8

I agree... that's why for me Ron and Hermione are the real leading characters. Harry drives me mad, specially in the OoTP he's so angst driven >.< Ron and Hermione on the other hand are always there, Hermione is the brains and they wouldn't of had accomplished anything without her.

Answer 9

I have never read a Harry Potter book maybe because what I have seen previewed. I assist young writers from the ages of eight to twelve years old. They write creatively about their own imaginations.
Where I live, Harry Potter was never an issue.

Answer 10

I totally agree with you... I don't really like the books cuz they're VERY fiction and even not those kind of fictions I may like!
well... I think he'll die in 7th book as well.