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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