Voldemort Gaining Power Through AK (WAS AK, male tears)

[Cindy C.]

No: HPFGUIDX 29217

> Milz:
> > What if the AK Curse not only kills the victim, but also tranfers 
the 
> victim's powers to the curser? If it does, then that would explain 
> why Voldemort went around killing powerful wizards and witches (per 
> Hagrid). That leads me to speculate that maybe Voldemort was 
getting 
> more powerful in order to battle Dumbledore. Maybe absorbing 
Harry's 
> magical power would have given Voldemort that little bit extra  to 
> defeat Dumbledore?<
> 


Canon support for Milz's theory may be in CoS:

"If I say it myself, Harry, I've always been able to charm the people 
I needed.  So Ginny poured out her soul to me, and her soul happened 
to be exactly what I wanted . . .  I grew stronger and stronger on a  
diet of her deepest fears, her darkest secrets."

"But there isn't much life left in [Ginny] . . . She put too much 
into the diary, into me.  Enough to let me leave its pages at last."

On the other hand, GoF seems to suggest that Voldemort did not become 
stronger following his residence in Quirrell's turban:

Voldemort says, "The servant died when I left his body, and I was 
left as weak as ever I had been."  So it appears that killing 
Quirrell did not provide Voldemort with Quirrell's powers.

Cindy