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** Harry's quickly revealed to have a talent at the age of 13, and in Book II, while being trained by Fandral and to a lesser extent, Sif, is noted to be well on the way to mastery and becomes a textbook MagicKnight. As the Lady Knight (explicitly the best blade in the setting) notes, he has all the natural advantages you could ask for: height, strength, speed, balance, spatial awareness, lethally fast reflexes, NervesOfSteel, and a talent for improvising. His talent is compared to none other than ''[[Series/Merlin2008 Arthur Pendragon]]'' - and he was, by the Lady Knight's extremely high standards, ''brilliant''. By her reckoning, he'd have technical mastery by 17 (human standards) and 30 (Asgardian standards. Given that at the time, at about 15, he's nigh-flawlessly impersonating [[spoiler: Obi-Wan Kenobi]] at the time, well enough to duel ''another'' MasterSwordsman, [[spoiler: Anakin Skywalker]], to a standstill, [[ItMakesSenseInContext which somehow makes sense in context]], you can see her point.

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** Harry's quickly revealed to have a talent at the age of 13, and in Book II, while being trained by Fandral and to a lesser extent, Sif, is noted to be well on the way to mastery and becomes a textbook MagicKnight. As the Lady Knight (explicitly the best blade in the setting) notes, he has all the natural advantages you could ask for: height, strength, speed, balance, spatial awareness, lethally fast reflexes, NervesOfSteel, and a talent for improvising.mastery. His talent is compared to none other than ''[[Series/Merlin2008 Arthur Pendragon]]'' - and he was, by the Lady Knight's extremely high standards, ''brilliant''. By her reckoning, he'd have She also notes that he has a more or less perfect list of physical and mental attributes to put that talent to best use, while accounting for his telepathy to revise Sif's estimates for how long it would take for him to achieve technical mastery by mastery: 17 (human standards) and 30 (Asgardian standards. standards). Given that at the time, at about 15, he's nigh-flawlessly impersonating [[spoiler: Obi-Wan Kenobi]] at the time, well enough to both duel ''another'' MasterSwordsman, [[spoiler: Anakin Skywalker]], to a standstill, [[ItMakesSenseInContext Skywalker]] ([[ItMakesSenseInContext which somehow makes sense in context]], context]]), to a standstill ''and'' sell the deception for a good while despite the latter having over a decade of experience of the former's FightingFingerprint, you can see her point.

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