I agree with you about the writing but I have a nearly opposite prediction.
I notice that in all the Harry talking to himself or reflecting quietly chapters he allways thinks something along the lines of “there seems to be almost no limit in what you could accomplish with magic if you really understood it”. Several times his mind circles around the becomus godus spell and considers some avenue and decides it wouldn’t work for some reason or another. In each case after thinking that his mind goes off on some other tangent.
So my prediction is that Harry has his situation get worse and worse until he can do nothing but think about how to et out of it. And while thinking and being forced not to divert his mind to other matters he will review clues that were allready available to us (had we been paying closer attention) and by reviewing the right facts in the right order he will deduce something about how magic works. That deduction will allow him to cast some absurdly powerful spell that solves his problems.
it has recently been pointed out that Harry’s Patronus v2.0 is powered by his life as well as his magic and that this (at least according to Voldemort, so obviously it’s true) makes it more powerful than it could have been if powered by just his magic
even the small fraction of his life he was able to give up on the spur of the moment was enough to restore Hermione’s life and magic, which even Voldemort was unable to do on his own
in canon, central to Harry’s ultimate victory is his willingness to die
and suggest that if your prediction is correct, what powers his absurdly powerful spell may be the sacrifice of the whole of his life and magic.
(Hmm. The power of a potion in HPMOR is determined by what went into making its ingredients, a curious and probably important discovery that hasn’t been applied yet for anything other than winning playfights. What went into making Harry was, among other things, the power and ingenuity—and in some sense even the life—of Lord Voldemort. Maaaaybe.)
What if he didn’t just sacrifice the whole of his magic, but the whole of entire magic?
Wow, a “get rid of magic and turn everyone into a muggle” spell would be actually worse than death to Voldemort. Just image having Voldemort living out his last few decades of life as a Muggle.
This makes me think about death being the worst fear of Voldemort. I guess being turned into a muggle and dying decades after that, would be much more fearful to him.
One further remark on that last paragraph. “A potion spends that which is invested in the creation of its ingredients”. What counts as creation? Ultimately, pretty much everything on earth is made of the remnants of supernovas...
I think that must be the role of the stirring and heating requirements: to control which aspects of the thing’s creation, and how much of them, are infused into the potion. There may well be a way to call forth solar fusion from common iron. But of course we know that no one has ever done it.
I agree with you about the writing but I have a nearly opposite prediction.
I notice that in all the Harry talking to himself or reflecting quietly chapters he allways thinks something along the lines of “there seems to be almost no limit in what you could accomplish with magic if you really understood it”. Several times his mind circles around the becomus godus spell and considers some avenue and decides it wouldn’t work for some reason or another. In each case after thinking that his mind goes off on some other tangent.
So my prediction is that Harry has his situation get worse and worse until he can do nothing but think about how to et out of it. And while thinking and being forced not to divert his mind to other matters he will review clues that were allready available to us (had we been paying closer attention) and by reviewing the right facts in the right order he will deduce something about how magic works. That deduction will allow him to cast some absurdly powerful spell that solves his problems.
I remark that
it has recently been pointed out that Harry’s Patronus v2.0 is powered by his life as well as his magic and that this (at least according to Voldemort, so obviously it’s true) makes it more powerful than it could have been if powered by just his magic
even the small fraction of his life he was able to give up on the spur of the moment was enough to restore Hermione’s life and magic, which even Voldemort was unable to do on his own
in canon, central to Harry’s ultimate victory is his willingness to die
and suggest that if your prediction is correct, what powers his absurdly powerful spell may be the sacrifice of the whole of his life and magic.
(Hmm. The power of a potion in HPMOR is determined by what went into making its ingredients, a curious and probably important discovery that hasn’t been applied yet for anything other than winning playfights. What went into making Harry was, among other things, the power and ingenuity—and in some sense even the life—of Lord Voldemort. Maaaaybe.)
What if he didn’t just sacrifice the whole of his magic, but the whole of entire magic?
Wow, a “get rid of magic and turn everyone into a muggle” spell would be actually worse than death to Voldemort. Just image having Voldemort living out his last few decades of life as a Muggle.
This makes me think about death being the worst fear of Voldemort. I guess being turned into a muggle and dying decades after that, would be much more fearful to him.
You may be on to something. Merlin created his Interdict with exactly that sacrifice.
One further remark on that last paragraph. “A potion spends that which is invested in the creation of its ingredients”. What counts as creation? Ultimately, pretty much everything on earth is made of the remnants of supernovas...
I think that must be the role of the stirring and heating requirements: to control which aspects of the thing’s creation, and how much of them, are infused into the potion. There may well be a way to call forth solar fusion from common iron. But of course we know that no one has ever done it.