[HPforGrownups] TBAY (I think....): Possible Parallel, but who knows...

[Alexander]

No: HPFGUIDX 38777

  Greetings!

> L. Terrell Gould, III wrote:

l> (...)

l>     Upon enjoying LotR a second time, a notion crossed my mind when 
l> reading the reason the Dark Lord (Sauron) survived. It was because his 
l> essence was trapped in the one ring, and he would only truly be gone 
l> when the ring was destroyed. Of course, being the avid HP fan that I 
l> am, I automatically shifted my thought to the other Dark Lord 
l> (Voldemort) for comparison. Had big, bad V stored away his essence in 
l> something before dieing at chubby infantile hands? Well, there's no 
l> canon for it being an object, but we do know a little bit of himself 
l> was left behind, in one Harry Potter.
l>     Ok, ok. Should I be implying that LV remained in etherial form 
l> because his essence was trapped in li'l HP?

l> (...)

  My last theory on this issue is that not only did he
remain alive due to Harry's body, but that Voldemort never
did lose power at all.

  Indeed, can you believe that fairy tale about a
one-year-old baby who somehow defeated the greatest evil
wizard of all times? I don't.

  Events of that day of Voldemort's downfall are so much
scrambled and uncertain that many speculations are possible.
But approximately a month ago I have come to an interesting
conclusion: if we do NOT trust everything Harry says (and we
assume the books are written mostly from Harry's words),
then a whole new picture appears.

  That is, if we question Harry's truthfulness. Not that I
say that Harry is a liar. Nope. I say that Harry is dead,
and it's Voldemort is Harry's body.

  Ever since I came to this idea, I have been enthralled by
it. It's really nice. It explains *everything*. Well, almost
everything. And events of books 1 to 4 start looking much
more interesting...

  Book 1. Voldemort, being in Harry's body, penetrates the
Hogwarts - the place he wouldn't dare to visit if he was in
his normal body. Trying to steal the Philosopher's Stone, he
lets two wizards suspect each other in evil intentions:
Snape and Quirrell. Both are wasting their time and energy
trying to prevent the other from stealing the Stone. At
last Harry/Voldemort confronts Quirrell in the Chamber and
kills him. He fails to get the stone, though - Dumbledore
arrives and he has to eat humble pie - for now.

  Book 2. A lot of diversions are made by Harry/Voldemort.
The result is general gain of Dumbledore's trust.

  Book 3. Sirius arrives. I DON'T believe this criminal to
be a nice man! Sirius is Death Eater for sure, and he came
to bow to his Lord. And I don't believe this werewolf as
well. Perhaps Snape is the only one who almost gets to know
the truth - but he is knocked out by Harry/Voldemort and two
poor boys who actually believe and like Harry (Voldemort was
always good in getting others' trust).

  Book 4. Voldemort sacrifices one of his Death Eaters
(namely, Crouch Jr), feeding him misinformation and
organising his eventual capture and death. I don't know how
much misinformation was in what Jeremy said to Dumbledore
under Veritaserum influence.

  There are still facts that don't fill the picture. But I
must say that official version has such facts in much larger
amounts! And what's more important, with this version we
have to believe much less unbelievable things (Voldemort's
downfall, werewolves goodness and so on).

  And last. This is all, of course, a joke. But a one I like
and will protect with all my strength.

Sincerely yours,
Alexander Lomski,
Gryffindor/Slytherin crossbreed,
always happy to throw weird ideas into community.