This is the first of a series of posts on unresolved plot elements to appear in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
As you know, because of a charm Albus Dumbledore enacted, Harry has been protected from harm as long as he returns to live with his Muggle relatives the Dursleys in the summer. That protection will expire on his 17th birthday, when Harry will be considered an adult in the wizarding world. He has said he will not return to Hogwarts for his final year of school, but will instead go out and face down Voldemort once and for all. That means the charm will expire at the begining of the book and so we will see Harry facing a more dangerous world than he ever has before.
Dumbledore has also been a special protector of Harry's. Now that Dumbledore is no longer with us, Harry is also facing the world without that old-world magic. However, even though the old protections he has enjoyed have passed, he has spent his time at Hogwarts cultivating new protections--in the form of his good and faithful friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, not to mention his own magical abilities.
In short, Harry's a man now. We've seen him grow from a pitiful, skinny little kid into quite a talented young man. I hope Voldemort's eating his Wheaties.
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