Ginny's possesion v's Harry's (was: Luna and the Trio....)

[lily_paige_delaney]

No: HPFGUIDX 82557

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> Iggy:
> > While Hermione has the intellect, Ginny probably has more innate 
common
> > sense than the entire Trio put together.
> >
> > (A good example of this is when she forces Harry to talk about 
his 
> > worries
> > that he's being possessed, and lets him know how stupid he's 
being for 
> > not
> > coming to talk to her... someone who's actually BEEN possessed.)
> >
Laura Ingalls Huntley <lhuntley at f...> wrote:

> Also, I'm not even that sure that Ginny's "words of wisdom" on 
being 
> possessed were all that good.  I mean, Quirrell didn't seem to 
suffer 
> from memory loss when V. possessed him.  And Harry didn't either in 
> "The Only One He Ever Feared."  Either it's a discrepancy in JKR's 
> definition of possession, or they were different types of 
possession 

> Laura (who is a bit miffed about Ginny's sudden personality 
transplantin OotP, if you hadn't noticed.))

I think there definately are different kinds of possession.  Ginny's 
possession was clearly much different to Harry's but then again so 
was Quirrell's. Quirrell was possessed yet was fully aware of what he 
was doing yet he died when Voldemort left him.  Ginny had no memory 
of what she had done when taken over by Voldemort, yet she eventually 
worked it out and in the end tried to fight back.  Riddle tells Harry 
in the Chamber of Secrets that she struggled and cried before he 
suceeded in getting her into the Chamber.  This sounds a bit more 
like the imperious curse to me (remember Mr Crouch in the forrest 
during GoF).  

In the Chamber of Secrets Riddle tells Harry that Ginny poured her 
soul into the diary and he grew stronger because of it.  He literally 
drained the lifeblood out of her until Harry destroyed the diary.  
Similar to some suggestions that Voldemort's attack on Harry left 
some part of Voldemort in him, I wonder if some of Riddle (ie. his 
memories)were transferred to Ginny?

If so, Harry might be able to learn why Riddle became Voldemort and 
find a weakness in his armour that could lead to his destruction.  
Legimency anyone?

LDP