On the Dark Mark forum this discussion is on it's 18 page, or something like that. Now I want to open it here on DDNT. Is Harry a Metamorphmagus or not. I totally believe he is. Discuss. Here is the Metamorphmagus summary which I made for Dark Mark:

The Metamorphmagus Summary

The Metamorphmagus (or Meta) theory is about Harry being a Metamorphmagus because he made is hair grow back in the Philosophers Stone.

Tonks was introduced for a reason. JK Rowling choosed that Tonks was a Metamorphmagus, when she could have made her an ordinary witch. It was the same with the Animagus ability. She introduced it with McGonagall, and it came back in the Prisoner of Azkaban, when we learned that Sirius, Peter and James was Animagis.

Tonks explained a very important bit of information in the third chapter of the Order of the Pheonix, where she explained that Metamorphamagus are rare, and that most wizards have to use potions or wands to change their appearance.

In chapter two of the Philosophers Stone Rowling speaked of some of the magic Harry had done. He had shrinked Dudleys horrible sweater which is rather random. He jumped behind the bins at school and in a blink of an eye finds himself on the top of the roof, some form of apparation, and he made his hair grow back after he had consentrated on it the whole night.

When he did this Harry was able to change his appearance without a wand or by potions. Only a Metamorphmagus is able to do so, as Tonks explained. And Tonks would be the perfect to learn Harry how to Metamorph as she is one able to do so herself.

Counter and Counter-Counter arguments

The counter argument to this is often that wizards can do magic out of instinct, when they're scared or angry, as we have seen Harry do several times so that explains why he grew is hair back so quickly.

This qoute from the clues section explains this:

Notes

JK Rowling was asked if Harry would become a Shapeshifter. JK Rowling replied: Animagus? No, he will be to busy with other things. She skirted the subject and instead of answering the question, she answers just a part of it. She was asked if Harry would become a Shapeshifter, not if he would become an Animagus, and she answers just the part about Harry becoming an Animagus.

Question related to Harry being a Metamorphmagus

These are questions we don't have any good answers to, but they have appeared on the thread in relation to Harry being a Metamorphmagus. One of the questions that appear if you say that Harry is a Metamorphmagus is where did he get it from? Did he get it from Voldemort, the Evans part of the family, or the Potter part of the family? This is a question that we cannot know the answer to, but only make guesses. And it's not even sure that it is from Voldemort, the Evans or the Potters as we don't know how magic works so it can be a random occurance.

Can Harry be able to hide his scar? Unknown. Possibly it is too powerfully magical to hide, but we don't have anything at all conclusive one way or another.

How/When is Harry going to discover this ability? Of course he will learn it in either book 6 or 7.

Toolateharry: My vote is rather soon. He will be getting over Sirius and will need something to focus on, to live off of (much like the DA during Coryashire's lover's (Umbridge) reign of doom). And with Tonks around, it should be pie...
hernias: When? Book 6, I'd imagine. Rowling would be playing it awful late in the game if she put it in seven (but that's not to say she couldn't). How? That's anyone's guess.

How does one develop the Meta ability?

hernias: I'd imagine that once you have the basic concentrate-and-you-change ____ down you can change just about anything you want. It's not like painting pictures or playing the piano, where it takes a long time and you always learn more as you go. It's more like taking pictures with a camera - once you know what that big button on the top does, you can take pictures of just about anything. Make sense?

So that's it. Discuss.

It was mentioned in an interview that he would be learning about Harry's grandparents. We also know that it couldn't be from Lily's parents because Lily was a muggle born. If it was Voldemort, then he would most likely still be around being that he could have disguised himself as Sirius. If it is genetic, it must be from James' parents.

Liam

As this is not directly related to the plot of the Half-Blood Prince but is a rumor, I am moving this to On the Lake's Shore.

Didn't Tonks say somewhere that you are born a metamorphagus? Surely Harry would have shown more signs of that ability in other books. So far, he's only managed to grow his hair back, shrink a jumper and get onto a roof without any help from a wand, and that was all before or during the age of 11. Wouldn't he have done other things in books 2,3,4 and 5? Tonks used her ability quite a lot - if Harry had the same ability I'm sure he would do the same.

Interesting theory though.

-N

Ah, he has done more things than that without a wand. He has blown up his Aunt Marge, he has made the glass in the zoo disappear, and when he blew up his Aunt, he also made the door to the cupboard burst open, even though it was locked. But the only thing that is related to being a Metamorphmagus of all the wandless magic he has done is he making his hair grow.

Since you have to consentrate a lot about changing your appearance to actually do it, I don't think Harry should've been able to change his appearance more since the first time. I mean, since he doesn't know that he is a Metamorphmagus he isn't consentrating on changing his appearance whenever it would've been good to have been able to do it. There are several occasions where he has wished he could have changed a bit of his appearance (like making his hair less untidy, and wishing he didn't have the scar), but he hasn't consentrated on it like he did when he lay a whole night thinking about it when he made his hair regrow. Since he doesn't know he has the ability, he isn't familiar with how he should consentrate either.

So because he doesn't know that he should consentrate, and doesn't know how to consentrate to change his appearance I think it's no wonder that he hasn't changed his looks more.

That's what I've thought since she introduced Tonks as well. And there's the fact that Harry's just so amazingly special (:D), so why wouldn't it happen.

Also, and this is pure speculation, it could be that Voldy was partial/full Metamorphmagus, which would make Harry one as well. But as there's not proof here, I don't know...

Elizabeth

Yeah, where he got it from is everyone's guess. I mean it could come from Voldemort, it could be from Potter side of the family, might be from the Evans side (I mean there's something about them, more to them than what meets the eye) and it could also just be a random occurance.

- Lars