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

[cindysphynx]

No: HPFGUIDX 38773

L. Terrell Gould, 

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

Sorry I had to snip so much of Terrell's interesting analysis, but 
it's so intriguing that there's not much to cut.

Boy, I'd really like this idea to work.  I'm a little confused 
though.  Is the idea that the backfired AK curse captured the 
essence of Voldemort and caused it to be stored in some part of 
Harry -- like Harry's blood, to pick one random possibility?  So 
that when Voldemort obtains Harry's blood, he, er, gets his groove 
back?  

Yeah, there's some canon for this, I think:  "I have my reasons for 
using the boy, as I have already explained to you, and I will use no 
other."  So maybe Voldemort could use any enemy for the Rebirthing 
Solution, but using Harry's blood turns Voldemort into Groovy 
Voldemort?

Or is the idea that Voldemort's attack on Harry was an attempt to 
retrieve something that was already stored inside Harry?  If so, 
what, and how did it get there?

Cindy (wondering what if this theory means that Dumbledore's gleam 
of triumph was something other than triumph)