The voice in Harry's head

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 46028

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "jastrangfeld" <msbonsai at m...> wrote:
> Has anyone had any thoughts on the voice in Harry's head?  

Yes.

> Now my question is the voice:
> 
> c. a part of his father still living in him?
> 
I believe it is a part of his MOTHER still living in him -- I believe 
that Lily used her last moments to do Something to put an image of 
herself into baby Harry's mind, so that in all those years with the 
Dursleys, when Harry was alone in his cupboard, he had an Imaginary 
Mum, kind of like an Imaginary Friend, to comfort him and tell him 
he was loved and explain to him how decent people behave (which he 
would not have learned from Dursleys), which is how he managed to 
have a sense of honor and fairness and kindness despite his 
upbringing, which was much lacking in examples of honor or fairness 
or kindness (except maybe on TV shows and in school books). And for 
evidence, I cite that canon *says* he heard a voice in his head 
telling him to disobey the Imperius, which in my theory was Lily's 
voice. My other "evidence" is that he is always obsessing about his 
father, trying to find out more about his father, and never wondering 
about his mother -- he doesn't need to wonder about her, because 
she's right there inside his head. 

Now, it certainly qualifies as voluntarily dying for love, if/that 
she spend her last moments and last magic doing something to 
protect her baby instead of directly attacking V or trying to defend 
herself, but I admit that in the situation, she would have been far 
more concerned to protect him against AK than against Dursley foster 
parenting. So I think that whatever she did to put the image of her 
in his head was instinctive, unplanned. And others would say it was a 
side-effect of something she did to protect him from AK.