A strange silver instrument

[mightymaus75]

No: HPFGUIDX 86437

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Berit Jakobsen" 
<belijako at o...> wrote:
> 
> I believe what we are supposed to think, is that Dumbledore just 
> wanted to know if Voldemort was possessing Harry inside the snake's 
> body; if he controlled Harry in any way. That the snake that rose
> out of the smoke in the silver instrument represented Nagini,
> dividing into two snakes to signify that Voldie and Harry were "in
> essence divided" inside her, not "one" in the scene were Arthur was
> injured. Meaning Harry was not to blame for the attempted murder of
> Arthur.
> 
> But I think there is canon evidence to support that Dumbledore
> wanted to know something more substantial than that. Here are the
> arguments:
> 
> <snipped very informative summation of arguments>
> 
> I won't speculate what this means, but from these clues I'm sure
> the silver instrument told Dumbledore more than we think it did.
> And I think it has something to do with Harry's connection to the
> Slytherin house and its heir, Voldemort. And in what way exactly
> Voldemort made him his EQUAL, making the prophecy state there can
> only be one of them... They're the same, but in essence divided...
> We'll know eventually :-)
> 
> Berit

A possible answer might be that the smoke serpent, the silver of the 
instrument, and the green of the smoke aren't referring to Salazar 
Slytherin or the house of Slytherin, but to his last descendant: Lord 
Voldemort. Voldemort is repeatedly described as a snake rearing up 
inside Harry. He even looks like a snake with his white skin, his 
flat nose, and his slitted pupils.

The divided essence Dumbledore is talking about would then be the 
essence of Voldemort. Voldemort unintentionally transferred some of 
his powers to Harry the night he gave Harry his scar. It's my pet 
theory* that Voldemort transferred more than just his powers that 
night, that he in fact transferred a part of his mind. The two smoke 
snakes then represent the separate parts of Voldemort's mind, which 
share a bond but at the same time have been living completely 
separate lives for the past 15 years. One part trapped inside Harry 
watching him grow up, the other forced to go into exile waiting for 
his followers to finally come looking for him.


*) KITTENS & RAINBOWS, a theory which argues along much the same 
lines as you have. See messages: #78982, #79691, #83445


> Just an interesting little detail I forgot in my previous post on 
> Harry's link and connection to the heir of Slytherin and to the 
> Slytherin house:
> 
> In the duelling scene in CoS, Snape deliberately forces Harry to 
> reveal he is a parselmouth. Why would Snape be so interested in 
> knowing this? And more importantly; why did he suspect Harry was
> one? There is no evidence to suggest Snape knew about the incident
> in the Muggle Zoo where Harry talked to the Boa constrictor from
> Brazil... Harry hadn't even told Hermione and Ron about it. So
> there must be another reason Snape puts two and two together and
> wants to check if his equation is turns out to be correct: To find
> out if Harry's a parselmouth. Obviosusly Snape's guess was right:
> CoS p.146 UK Edition: "Snape too, was looking at Harry in an
> unexpected way: it was a shrewd and calculating look..." Veeeery
> interesting :-)
> 
> Berit

Actually I think Snape suspected Harry was a Parselmouth because he 
used Occlumency on Harry his very first night at Hogwarts:

"Harry, who was starting to feel warm and sleepy, looked up at the 
High Table again. Hagrid was drinking deeply from his goblet. 
Professor McGonagall was talking to Professor Dumbledore. Professor 
Quirrell, in his absurd turban, was talking to a teacher with greasy 
black hair, a hooked nose, and sallow skin.

It happened very suddenly. The hook-nosed teacher looked past 
Quirrell's turban straight into Harry's eyes -- and a sharp, hot pain 
shot across the scar on Harry's forehead.

`Ouch!' Harry clapped a hand to his head.

`What is it?' asked Percy.

`N-nothing.'

The pain had gone as quickly as it had come. Harder to shake off was 
the feeling Harry had gotten from the teacher's look -- a feeling 
that he didn't like Harry at all." [PS/SS]

Of course, we are meant to think that Harry felt his scar hurt 
because he looked directly at Quirrell's turban. But interestingly 
Harry doesn't feel his scar hurt again until almost nine months later 
when he meets Quirrellmort in the Forbidden Forrest. All this time 
Harry is in close proximity to Professor Quirrell, takes his DADA 
class, even passes him a few times in the hallways, but not even the 
slightest hint of pain from Harry's scar.

It's perhaps more likely then that it was Snape using Occlumency on 
Harry that caused his scar to hurt. We know that direct eye-contact 
is needed for Occlumency, and Harry was specifically disturbed by the 
feeling he got from looking directly in Snape's eyes. The fact that 
Snape using Occlumency on Harry caused Harry's scar to hurt seems to 
indicate that Snape saw the part of Voldemort's mind buried inside 
Harry's head. I believe that it is because of this that Snape decided 
to have Draco use a snake on Harry in the Duelling club in CoS.

-Maus