[HPforGrownups] Re: Possession

[Carolina]

No: HPFGUIDX 90764

John:
>  If Voldemort is possessed, he is not a bad guy.

No, John. As Carol has kindly explained, there's a kind of possesion that 
slowly corrups the soul but to wich you can resist, if you want. Tom Riddle 
wanted power and found a power able to control him, but as in lotr, that 
power doesn't instantly corrupt you, and it counts who the victim is. If 
anything, Tom chose to open the Chamber, and if we are to believe him, he 
maintained that desition during 5 years.

A small desition, maybe? Cedric chose to share the cup with Harry and that was 
the last thing he decided.

Now a couple of things:

We have an example of independent mind embebbed with some powers in an object 
during 1000 years, wich was also present at the Chamber showdown: the Sorting 
Hat.

How could Tom forget about the healing powers of a Fenix? Was he trying to get  
Harry survive or what? He had studied(*) it about 2 years ago, and he was 
supossedly top class. How could he forget about a creature that is famous for 
bringing terror to impure hearts? Didn't he took 'impure' as personal?  

(*) Not necessary, but FB is a school book since 1927, and 'Of course... 
phonix tears... I forgot' suggests he had studied it. It's in the same book 
where the basilisk is described, to start. 

silmariel