Voldemort's power of possession

[IAmLordCassandra at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 32537

First off, I must state the oath of the newbie: "I'm sorry if this has been 
discussed to death. I looked in the archives, but far too many posts came up 
and I couldn't go through them all." 

Now...I've been curious about Voldemort's power to possess another's body. 
Mainly because in GoF he says it was the one power that _remained_ to him. I 
can see LV being able to possess someone in his smoke/vapor form, but how did 
he do it when he was in a body? Was he able to assume some kind of form that 
would allow him to enter someone else's body? Or did he use telepathy, maybe? 
Or perhaps he could leave his body in some kind of spiritual form?  

This would also explain the "I was ripped from my body." thing he says. Maybe 
he had left his body so many times to go possess people that it was easy for 
him to leave his body in a spirit form and his body was destroyed. My theory 
for the "pain beyound pain." thing is that, even in this form, he had some 
connection to his body and could feel it being destroyed by the AK curse. 

I'm also wondering *who* he decided to possess. He could've obviously just 
used the imperius curse if he wanted to control someone. Unless, of course, 
he wanted to live vicariously through someone. 

Ok, I have an idea that adds what I hope are new theories to some old topics. 


Maybe Voldemort was infactuated with Lily. Infactuated enough to want her 
physically. However, he couldn't do that (Why? I don't know...maybe all those 
evil transformations and whatnot made him impotent or something. Plus he was 
what, 50+ years older than her?). So what does the dark lord do? He uses his 
powers of possession! And who does he possess? Someone Lily Potter would 
trust and that he could trust as well. His own Death Eater, Severus Snape. Of 
course, I don't know how much/if Lily would trust Snape or even if they had 
any contact-I just added that line to help with dramatic effect.  

Here's where it gets tricky, folks. Voldemort, as Snape, 
has-his-way-with-Lily. Lily never tells James though.  Or maybe *is bursting 
with ideas* Voldemort used Polyjuice potion to change Snape's body into James 
and gained Lily's trust that way. 

Snape remembers this, and is protective over Harry because he feels *he* was 
the one who wronged Harry's mother. 

Ok, so this is really out of the blue, but it is something to ponder about I 
think.  And if Voldemort didn't use this possession powers for this or a 
similar reason, what do you guys think he used it for? 

^-^ 

~Cassie-who just realized this would defeat her whole 'Severus is a virgin' 
theory~