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

[Sarah Tilson]

No: HPFGUIDX 38775

L. Terrell Gould, III said:

>     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?

Newbie joining the discussion here...A friend of mine suggested exactly this 
-- that Voldemort had somehow channeled his powers, accidentally or not, 
into Baby Harry. The Canon seems to suggest that Harry shares a connection 
with ol' Lord of Darkness, at the very least. Personally, I'm fond of the 
idea that Voldemort put his essence into Harry and is now unable to get it 
back, but if Voldemort did like this the question remains: Why Harry, son of 
two famous Good wizards? Did the irony appeal to him? Was the spell supposed 
to corrupt him, but Lily's sacrifice saved him? Was there some power or 
special attribute that only Harry possessed?
And does this mean we're going to have Harry tossed *off* that catwalk into 
the lava at the end? ^_^
Ah, so many possibilities.

@_@

Sarah, who must now rush off to the lithograph press

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