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This is a very short article because it was merely a thought. Therefore it is not formatted correctly and probably has some punctuation/spelling/grammar/sentence structure mistakes. I am sorry in advance.

I was re-reading the Goblet of Fire, and I came across this quote:

'"I was saying, my dear, that you were clearly born under the baleful influence of Saturn," said Professor Trelawney, a faint note for resentment in her voice at the fact that he had obviously not been hanging on her words.
"Born under -- what, worry?" said Harry.
"Saturn, dear, the planet Saturn!" said Professor Trelawney, sounding definitely irritated that he wasn't riveted by this news. "I was saying Saturn was surely in a position of power in the heavens at the moment of your birth... your dark hair... your mean stature... tragic losses so young in life... I think I'm right in saying, my dear, that you were born in mid-winter?"
"No," said Harry, "I was born in July."'

Now, you may have had a different experience, but when I first read this I laughed, at Harry's reply as well as the fact it seemed confirmation that apart from a few bright spots Trelawney seems a complete fraud. But on re-reading many years and obsession with Voldemort later, I realised something:

Harry, at this point, has part of Voldemort's soul in him, right?

Voldemort had, in his youth, dark hair, a mean stature, tragic losses young in life, and, most importantly, he was born on December 31st, which definitely constitutes as mid-winter.

Now, apart from showing masterful plot construction by Jo Rowling, it also shows that there is a large part of Harry, that divination and the art of reading ones sub-conscious and therefore soul can detect, is centred around Voldemort's influence. Harry himself wonders about this in the Chamber of Secrets - how similar he is to Voldemort, and Dumbledore replies that Voldemort imparted some of his traits to Harry when he tried to kill him as a baby.

It just made me wonder - how much of the Harry we grew up with, reading about and, in the end, caring about to the extent of (in friendly/familial sense) loving, was Voldemort? How many of his traits, save Parseltongue, are part of who he was actually born to be? And after he is rid of his soul, does he lose these traits? If so, who is Harry, because it seems like in that case, we wouldn't actually know him?

Sorry, random thought splurge, it's just the idea that we didn't know grown-up Harry sort of distressed me and I wondered what the greater fan community thought. Normally I would let it go (I haven't been on fanpop for a long time) but I kept on reading how he threw of the Imperius and the voices that told him to stop speaking inside of him (which reminded me of the horcruxs - I wondered whether he could through it off so easily not because he has undeniable incredibly strength of will but also because the part of the Voldemort's soul within him a) wasn't affected by the Imperius and b) does not want to be controlled?), and other things such as his temper and his power but lack of complimentary brillance... I don't know... I merely had to write down my thoughts :)

Also, I'm sorry if I offended any die-hard Harry-fans. Make no mistake, I love Harry, and he does have very great strength of will, but whilst not stupid and really quite bright he is not, by any stretch of the imagination, on Voldemort's intelligence/power wave-length. That's sort of the point, though, isn't it? He wasn't, but he made the right choices, his heart was full of love and that gave him a strength and a power Voldemort's couldn't understand....

I'll shut up now.
When people tell me that James “grew out of bullying”, I always respond with the canonically sound FACTS that James Potter was 21 when he died, 20 when Harry was born and *19* when Harry was conceived. He had *no time* to change out of his bullying bullshit personality towards Severus. Just take a look around you and see if you can name half a dozen of your under-21 male friends/acquaintances who YOU think would make such an awesome hubby and father right now (oh, and don’t discount the bullies you know who pick on people “just because they exist”). And when we keep telling you that...
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In February 2006 JK Rowling donated a sketch of the Black family tree for a Book Aid charity auction, and as expected, it generated a great deal of interest and excitement in the Harry Potter fan community. And finally, as the year draws to a close, the MuggleNet Encyclopedia has managed to get the full family tree, along with information about the people on it, up on site - and about time too, a lot of you might say.

Whilst the tree gives a fascinating insight into the background of one of the oldest pure-blood families of all, it also threw up a number of surprising facts and - perhaps - the...
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Sirius Black III:

- In the film version of Order of the Phoenix during the battle at the Department of Mysteries, Sirius accidentally calls Harry James, even though this mix-up never occurred in the book.
- Also during the battle at the Department of Mysteries Sirius was hit by a Killing Curse in the movie and survived for about 6 seconds, but in the book he was hit by an unnamed curse and fell into the veil.
- J.K. Rowling described Sirius as a "bit of a loose canon" and a "case of arrested development" and she also once described him as "brave, loyal, reckless, embittered and slightly unbalanced...
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