So I've had a lot of questions and critics about if Harry was so powerful why doesn't she just blow up everything in her way. While Harry is powerful she doesn't wish to be, she actively tries not to use her powers because there are other more mundane ways to do this. It all boils down to Harry wanting to be normal, 'just Harry' as it were. Harry also doesn't want to be the Master of Death, and doesn't want to use the Hallows if there is another method, a relatively 'normal' method. A lot of Harry's desire to be normal comes from growing up with the Durleys, because of how she was treated as an 'abnormal', just because she found out that she wasn't alone in her abnormality doesn't get ride of the years of philological and emotional abuse. The same thing happens for victims of bullying, after being told that you are weird, stupid, and strange for years you start to believe it. I know, I was a victim of bullying for years, and even now over a decade later I'm still effected. In someway that verbal and emotional abused is worse then physical abuse, even if there are no physical scars to show for it there are deep physiological scars carved into your psyche.

Now that want to be normal why in the Killing Suzie episode Harry used a ritual instead of the Hollows. While she did wear them, 'just in case' and for passive power buff, she didn't want to actively use them until she had too. Harry would have left the Hallows behind if they didn't follow her around, and has tried to get rid of them on several occasions, aka the end of Harry Potter the Deathly Hallows. The only reason that Harry was wearing them in the beginning with the Fairies was that she had just come out from long term captivity and didn't feel safe and was using them as a security blanket. While she had been in the Whoverse for over a century, she had been held by Torchwood for that time, they had advanced technology and had been able to hold her against her will and continued to find new way to make sure that she stayed in prison. She didn't know her new world enough to feel safe to walk around without a trump card strapped to her arm.

Now back to the Hallows. In Harry's youth she saw what use of the Hallows did to people. They are an obsession that warps people, it started Grindelward and Dumbledore down the road to war. The only reason Dumbledore didn't become a Dark Lord was because the fight with Grindelward that accidently killed his sister. Even after Dumbledore was obsessed with the Hallows, he collected all of them at one point, and it was this obsession that got him killed because of the curse that was placed on the ring that held the Resurrection stone. Every person that sought out the Elder Wand died or was horribly defeated an crippled, the only one that survived long was Dumbledore, but he stayed behind his castle walls and didn't get into fights with people. The only Hallow that is passive is the Cloak of Invisibility, and if you look at it, it could be the root of Potter Luck that vacillates wildly between good and bad. Even though she is the Master of Death she is not unaffected by them, so she tries not to use them.

Now another thing that is brought up a lot is the events in Countryside with the cannibals. Most people don't like how Harry was so quickly brought down and injured. Once again the first thing you have to realises it that Harry is trying to fit in and use tech conventional to that time, meaning she isn't carrying around the Hallows or advance tech other than her guns. Harry isn't going to use a bunch of spells and magic, one because she is trying to fit in as much as she can; two she is in a place that doesn't know about magic and she has seen first hand what happened when mundane humans find out about magic; three, as much as Harry is trained she doesn't like using that training because she had basically become a weapon of mass destruction, and hated it but knew that it was necessary at that time and place. Harry using magic would be like dropping a nuke on a bug, it is overkill and in the end Harry wants to just normal.

Now to my biggest irritation. A lot of people have issue with the fact that 'if Harry was so well trained some country side hicks wouldn't be able to touch her'. I have to say it doesn't matter how well or how much training you have. While training does increase your survivability, all it takes is an idiot making a lucky shot and/or taking you off guard, and you are dead or severely injured. I know this first hand; I work with police first responders. There have been good, well trained people killed because of some drunk, illiterate moron that got a lucky shot. I know well train professional that have been taken of guard and severely beaten. This does happen. Just because in fiction and video games the good guy is always better and comes out on top, doesn't mean that it happens in real life. All it takes is a bad day, and the other guy getting lucky and you're dead.

So this was my rant. I apologise if there are any mistakes, I'm writing this at 5 in the morning after a night shift.

Live Long and Prosper,

Athena 8472