In bed with Harry Potter (Re: Sexual Temptaion )

yolandacarroll yolandacarroll at yahoo.com
Mon Dec 8 23:52:11 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 86794

Iris wrote:
<snip>
> I'm not saying by this that Harry feels an erotic fascination 
> towards Voldemort. I only noticed, while I was reading the books, 
> that the way JKR made Voldemort talk to Harry, the way he used the 
> verb "to conquer" when he described what had happened in Godric's 
> Hollow, was rather particular. And what can we think of the way 
> Voldemort "visits" Harry while the boy is in bed? It starts with 
the 
> first dream Harry has when he arrives at Hogwarts. It goes on with 
> the Diary: Harry understand how it work, then travels through 
Tom's 
> memories and is seduced by his lies. Where does it happen? In 
> Harry's bed. Not to mention the fact that most of the time, Harry 
is 
> asleep in his bed when Voldemort possesses his mind. OK, we can 
> object that when he is asleep is when Harry is more vulnerable; it 
> doesn't matter, it happens while he is in bed
Why? I don't know, 
but 
> Voldemort's obsession towards the Boy Who Lived has very strange 
> accents.
> And I won't try to comment the sequences when Lupin or Sirius put, 
> or don't put,  their hand on Harry's shoulder. Harry, cet obscur 
> objet du désir

> 
> Amicalement,
> 
> Iris

In CoS, didn't Tom Riddle say that for awhile now 
his new obsession had been Harry.  As has already 
been posted, CoS employed quite a few sexual overtones 
which makes it interesting that CoS was the book where 
Tom admitted his fascination with Harry.  

Yolanda






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