The Gleam of Something Like Triumph (WAS: HP and LV die together?)

[aja_1991]

No: HPFGUIDX 55453

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "erinellii" <erinellii at y...> 
wrote:
> Heh, heh, you know how, whenever Voldemort feels a particuarly 
strong 
> surge of hatred, Harry feels pain.  Wouldn't it be funny if, now 
that 
> Voldemort has some of Harry in him, every time Harry feels love, 
> Voldemort feels pain?  Not sure how that would relate to 
Dumbledore's 
> reaction, but it would be amusingly symmetrical.  

Me:
Highly symmetrical and amusing and ironic.  And it seems to work a 
lot too.

Don't have the books in front of me, and possibly some movie 
contamination in my head, but didn't Dumbledore say in PS/SS in 
the "debriefing" at the end that what saved Harry, and what Voldemort 
can't understand, is love?

I've noted in some of my other posts that Voldemort often overlooks 
things, even while seeming to be patient to achieve his goals.  
Perhaps he overlooked the magical qualities of wizard blood.  One of 
those qualities, evident when blood is transferred, is a type of 
clairvoyance - you sense what the source of that blood is sensing.  
Harry has it from Voldemort in the scar on his head instead of with 
blood; Voldemort now has it from Harry in his newly rebirthed body.

Harry may feel pain because the intensity of Voldemort's hatred is 
painful... it's not necessarily that the scar will just automatically 
hurt.  Harry feels what Voldemort is feeling, and is so un-used to 
such intense hatred and anger that it's painful.  Normal feelings, 
say hunger or fatigue, might not be noticed because they are likely 
not particularly strong, but also because Harry's experienced them 
and his system absorbs them quite normally.

So based on Erinelli's theory above, Voldemort may experience Harry's 
anger at an unfair punishment from Snape as pretty normal.  Harry's, 
um, interest in Cho (which seems more teenage boy raging hormones 
than a deeper relationship type of love), might be something he's 
familiar with too.  (I can't help but think that the evil Voldemort 
feels and acts on sensations of lust in some way).

But true love?  Parent-child love?  Husband-wife love?  True 
friendship / platonic love?  These are all things Voldemort has never 
known or has long since forgotten.  Could this result in a sensory 
overload of some kind to Voldemort?

JKR seems reluctant, I'll admit, to have Harry kill anyone.  He's 
been tempted, and perhaps given the right target he could do so, but 
there seems to be a message coming through that he will resist that 
temptation.  Could it be that Harry, in some day finding that true 
love of whatever type (see list above), could overwhelm Voldemort 
with those feelings of love and kill the *evil*, rather than the 
wizard?  The happy and intelligent Tom Riddle from Hagrid's youth 
comes back, repentant of all?  Now THAT would be ironic.

aja_1991