[HPforGrownups] Re: OOP: Harry's Summer Vulnerability, was: Phone booth and Snape (unrelated)

[marilyn at gehennom.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 62593

On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 01:56:04AM -0000, pippin_999 wrote:
> My impression, (don't have the book with me, so I could be 
> wrong) was that Harry was able to throw off Voldemort's attempt 
> to possess him in the duel at the end because he had so much 
> "heart", and this quality so repelled Voldemort that he would 
> never again be able to endure contact with Harry's mind. 
> Thoughts?

Mmm, this is a good possibility also.  I wasn't sure whether all the
LUV in Harry prevented Voldemort from fully possessing him in that way
(in which he could actually speak through Harry's body), or if it
prevented him from entering his head and reading his thoughts or
emotions at all...

The mind connection ideas were all over the place in this book; it's not
"mind reading" but Harry can sense exactly what Voldemort's doing at
times, sometimes he can just sense his feelings, when Snape reads
Harry's thoughts, it's just a random conglomeration of thoughts from
throughout his life and same with Harry on Snape's...

But I suppose the mind is a complicated and confusing mess to wizards as
well as to Muggles.  :)

--marilyn

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