HarrySavesHarry (was Adopted!Harry)

[m.steinberger]

No: HPFGUIDX 58229

The second half of my theory - the part about Harry going back to save his infant self - doesn't really require Harry to have been adopted, so I'm changing its name to HarrySavesHarry, or HSH. All HSH needs (for justice) is that Harry have some characteristic that makes him uniquely suited to challenge Voldemort. This could be the Heir of Gryffindor theory, which I hate because it runs directly counter to JKR's choices-not-genes theme, or it could be my Adopted!Harry theory, which of course I'm quite fond of.

In any case, in Barb's barb against HSH, which I clarified a few posts ago, she discussed Harry's surviving the HSH encounter with Voldemort to live incognito for 17 years until his 18-yr-old self had gone back in time, upon which his now 35-yr-old self could reveal himself. Well, I don't support this route, but it leads to such a great speculation that I'm proposing the following extension just for fun.

Let's say that Voldemort has become Vapormort, infant Harry has been deposited at the Dursley's, and 18-yr-old Harry has to find somplace to hang out incognito for the long haul of the next 17 years. How about he gets himself transfigured into a little old lady and parks himself two blocks away from the Dursley's to keep an eye on his infant self? Mrs. Figg is really 18-yr-old Harry! (who is really Tom Riddle!) What's nice about this speculation is that it gives Mrs. Figg a very good reason to care so much about child Harry, and also a very good reason to waste so many years of her life as an old lady in Little Whinging, something missing from all the other hidden-identity-Mrs-Figg theories.

While we're at it, I'd say that late at night, Harry!Figg transfigures him/herself further into a cat or a little bird or a spider (he's had lots of lonely hours to do nothing but learn animagic), and sneaks into child Harry's cupboard while he's sleeping. Every night, Riddle!Harry!Figg!Spider whispers sweet little nothings into child Harry's ears about how loved he is, and whispers noble big somethings into his ears about how to be a decent person, unlike the Dursleys.

And that is the answer to the riddle of how Harry came out so well from the rotten Dursleys. Harry taught Harry how to be good and kind and noble and brave. And if that sounds circular, it's no worse than Harry saving Harry from the Dementors in PoA.

Happy speculating!

The Admiring Skeptic



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