The smoke serpent

[mochajava13]

No: HPFGUIDX 79380

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Karen" <ktd7 at y...> wrote:
> I took this as being the fact that part of Harry (his blood, in 
GoF)
> is in Voldemort, just as part of Voldemort is in Harry (his scar). 
I 
> expect that some of Harry's "power" is warring with Voldemort's 
> basic nature. Since Harry's power is the capacity to love, or more 
> accurately, "heart", it could be that Voldemort has times when he 
is 
> distracted from his goals. Then again, maybe I'm just making up my 
> own story! :-)


I took the snakes dividing to be representative of Harry and 
Voldemort.  Between the two of them, there is only one essence; one 
being.  Like yin/yang or two sides of the same coin idea.  Harry and 
Voldemort are two different things that are part of one whole.  
They're now divided, and have interchanged parts of each other.  But 
a divided thing cannot surive; it has to be re-united.  Hence, the 
prophecy: neither can truly live (truly be a separate independent 
person) while the other still exists.  Harry has everything good; 
Voldemort has everything bad, and there is a conflict being fought 
between the two over which will survive.  Now that Voldemort is back 
to full power, Harry can no longer truly live his own life.  He 
feels Voldemort's feelings that have nothing to do with his own.  
Harry's temper was almost constantly at the surface in OoP.  While 
Harry did have a very good reason to be so upset all the time (and 
teenage hormones made the anger worse), Harry's anger is extreme, 
and possibly being fueled by the part of him that is Voldemort/Tom 
Riddle.  

I'm sure that this works the other way as well.  Voldemort only 
noticed this when Harry showed extreme emotion when Mr. Weasley was 
bitten; now Voldemort can actively manipulate it.  What if Harry has 
a huge surge of love?  Would Voldemort feel that, and be pained by 
it?  Also, Harry literally cannot bear to be in Voldemort's physical 
presence.  His forehead, the part of the brain that gives a person 
their personality and sense of self, burns whenever Voldemort is 
near, or feeling something strong.  (Possiby symbolic of an attack 
on Harry's identity?)  But Harry can possess Voldemort to a degree 
without really feeling anything: his saw Rookwood get tortured 
through Voldemort's eyes, and looked into a mirror and saw himself 
as Voldemort.  Yet Harry was still physically in his bed; hence a 
possible possession that Harry is unconscious of ever doing.  
Interestingly, Voldemort is the opposite: he can stand being 
physically close to Harry, but he cannot possess Harry.  Possessing 
Harry is painful to Voldemort and why Voldemort couldn't possess 
Harry for long after Sirius' death.  Notice that when Harry is 
actually possessed by Voldemort, he is still aware that he is 
himself, but now another exists with him.  He's aware that something 
is making his mouth move, but he is blind to his surroundings.  
Harry referred to an us in his thoughts, thinking that Dumbledore 
should kill us, not me.  Now compare this to Ginny's possession by 
Voldemort: she remembers nothing of what she did while possessed by 
Voldemort, and did not retain her own identity.  The fact that Harry 
and Voldemort are in essence one entity is why his possession is 
different than Ginny's.  (Discounting Voldemort's possession of 
Quirrel since Voldemort now has a body of his own.)

I don't think that Harry is following in Voldemort's footsteps and 
turning into another Voldemort.  Tom Riddle killed his own father in 
his teens by using an Unforgivable curse.  And he consciously chose 
to be named Lord Voldemort while still at Hogwarts.  He's still Tom 
Riddle, but refuses to use the muggle name, and so renames himself.  
He didn't get some new personality with it.  Harry can't kill; he's 
bothered even by the idea that he might have to murder Voldemort.  
Even after Bellatrix killed Sirius and Harry vowed to kill her, 
Harry doesn't use the killing curse, he tries to cause her to feel 
the pain that he is feeling.  (Interested to me that Harry didn't 
try to kill her even after saying that he would.)

Just a side note, it's interesting what Voldemort used to resurrect 
himself: a part of his father he murdered, a part of a boy who he 
tried to murder, and a part of someone who is in debt to the boy who 
destroyed his body in the first place.  Seems to me that Voldemort 
is monumentally cursed.  Harry's blood has a protection from 
Voldemort (and only Voldemort) because Voldemort murdered his mother 
while she was trying to save him.  Now that Voldemort has this blood 
in him to, does that mean he cannot hurt Harry? And the flesh used 
in the spell to revive Voldemort is in debt to Harry.  Voldemort is 
in debt to Harry for bringing him back to life.  Hm, does Voldemort 
have a life debt to Harry?  Dumbledore did say that life debts are 
magic in its most impenatrable form (in PoA).  Seems to me Voldemort 
is cursed and destined to die.  I also like to think that because 
the wizarding world is monumentally screwed if Voldemort wins.  
(After all, only Harry can defeat him.)
Sarah