Transferred Some of His Powers

[sunnyskywalker]

Dumbledore says that Voldemort transferred some of his powers to Harry, the mechanism for which is later revealed to be the soul fragment lodged in Harry’s head. But the only power he ever singles out is Parseltongue. Were there others?

Comments

[madderbrad]

Well, what is Voldemort good at, and does any of it correspond with what Harry is good at?

Voldemort is attracted to evil.

Harry is attracted to Ginny Weasley.

I need say no more.

... and instead of blasting Voldemort entirely wandlessly, he makes his wand shoot golden fire for him, apparently without knowing any such spell (DH).

Wow, it's been so long, I've fogotten that disasterous bit of pathetic writing. At least I think it was pathetic, I felt nauseous when I read your sentence just now. Did Dumbledore try and explain that 'golden fire' thing in the huge Chapter-of-information-to-make-sense-of-everything-from-the-dead? Was there an official in-world explanation?

[sunnyskywalker]

It would be so hard to figure out whether any of Harry's attraction to evil was down to Voldemort, learned from the Dursleys or Dumbledore, a tendency inherited from James... there are just too many possible sources!

And Tom only pretended to be interested in Ginny because she was the one writing in his diary and he wanted out

[oryx_leucoryx]

Now I'm wondering how many fics are there that seriously try to portray what Auror!Harry is like without Voldiepowers.

[sunnyskywalker]

That could be fascinating. And if the Voldiebit gave him an all-around power boost as well as special powers, he might find himself suddenly struggling with spells he thought he'd mastered. Could be a nasty shock!

Which will probably make that Elder Wand look increasingly tempting...