Canon supporting KITTENS & RAINBOWS (little bit of TBAY)

[mightymaus75]

No: HPFGUIDX 83445


A nice sunny day in Theory Bay. Maus, self proclaimed captain of the 
galleon KITTENS & RAINBOWS, was very pleased with himself. KITTENS & 
RAINBOWS - Key Is The Transferred Essence Now Seeking Reunion. 
Affection Is Not Beyond Obsessive Wicked Sorcerer; the theory that a 
part of Voldemort's mind is trapped inside Harry, Voldemort is not 
truly alive, and Voldemort cannot become truly alive until Harry is 
dead.* Maus was so pleased with himself because he had just finished 
his inventory of the canon available for supporting the KITTENS & 
RAINBOWS. It had taken several weeks, but then there was a lot of 
canon to go through and he wasn't exactly a fast reader.

Maus reached inside his jacket pocket and pulled the rolled up piece 
of parchment out again. He glanced at it then looked over at the 
three shiny new cannons prominently displayed on the deck, he 
smiled. 'Time for a drink' he thought to himself, looked around him, 
and quickly spotted the George on the other side of the bay.

Now if only he knew how to sail.

*) See also messages #79691, #78982.


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Inventory of canon supporting KITTENS & RAINBOWS:


Canon supporting that Voldemort is not truly alive:

-- "Some say he died. Codswallop, in my opinion. Dunno if he had 
enough human left in him to die." [Hagrid, PS/SS]

Hagrid is not the most reliable source of information, but it seems 
he knows something about this. As he says so himself in GoF: "Knew he 
was goin' ter come back. <snip> Known it fer years. Harry. Knew he 
was out there, bidin' his time. It had ter happen. Well, now it has, 
an' we'll jus' have ter get on with it." Voldemort's loss of his 
humanity seems to be closely related to his inability to feel love or 
pain. I believe both these things are at the root of why Voldemort is 
no longer truly alive.

-- "... not being truly alive, he cannot be killed." [Dumbledore, 
PS/SS]

It could be that Voldemort couldn't be killed because of the unicorn 
blood he drank. The resulting state of cursed half-life would then 
explain why Dumbledore refers to him as not being truly alive. 
Unicorn blood however doesn't seem to keep you permanently from 
dying. Drinking unicorn blood certainly didn't prevent Professor 
Quirrell from dying. It is perhaps more likely therefore that 
Voldemort couldn't be killed because of the one or more 'experiments' 
that also made him survive the rebounded AK curse. It was these 
experiments then that resulted in Voldemort no longer being truly 
alive. Which would mean that in his obsessive quest for everlasting 
life Voldemort actually sacrificed the ability to live. I hope the 
irony is not lost on everyone.

And of course, if Voldemort was not truly alive at the time he 
survived the rebounded AK curse, why would he be truly alive now?

-- "... for neither can live while the other survives." [Trelawney, 
OotP]

Harry simplifies this as 'one will have to kill the other'. And in 
part that is what it says, but that's not all it is saying. 'Neither' 
meaning 'not Harry and not Voldemort' the above can be broken down 
into: Voldemort cannot live while Harry survives AND Harry cannot 
live while Voldemort survives. It's important to note that both 
statements have to be true. Now the tricky part; the meaning of the 
word 'while'. Either it means 'when on the other hand' or it 
means 'as long as'; giving us the following possible combinations:

1) Voldemort cannot live when on the other hand Harry survives.

			 AND

   Harry cannot live when on the other hand Voldemort survives.

2) Voldemort cannot live when on the other hand Harry survives.

			 AND

   Harry cannot live as long as Voldemort survives.
  
3) Voldemort cannot live as long as Harry survives.

			 AND

   Harry cannot live when on the other hand Voldemort survives.

4) Voldemort cannot live as long as Harry survives.

			 AND

   Harry cannot live as long as Voldemort survives.

The first combination seems to be nonsensical, it would mean that 
both Harry and Voldemort cannot live and both Harry and Voldemort 
survive at the same time. Which leaves the last three. At least one 
of them and perhaps even both cannot live *as long as* the other 
survives. Since both Harry and Voldemort at present clearly seem to 
be surviving, this would mean that at least one of them is not truly 
alive at the moment.

If it's Voldemort who is not truly alive then Voldemort cannot become 
truly alive again until Harry dies. Which would mean that until Harry 
dies Voldemort cannot be killed.


Canon supporting that Harry has a bit of Voldemort's mind inside of 
him:

-- "'You can speak Parseltongue, Harry,' said Dumbledore 
calmly, 'because Lord Voldemort -- who is the last remaining ancestor 
of Salazar Slytherin -- can speak Parseltongue. Unless I'm much 
mistaken, he transferred some of his own powers to you the night he 
gave you that scar. Not something he intended to do, I'm sure...'
'Voldemort put a bit of himself in me?' Harry said, thunderstruck.
'It certainly seems so.'" [CoS]

Ok, so we all know Voldemort transferred some of his powers to Harry 
the night his AK curse backfired. And that same night a connection 
was formed between Harry and Voldemort, a connection that allows 
Harry to feel what Voldemort feels, sometimes even lets him see and 
hear what Voldemort sees and hears, and makes his scar hurt whenever 
Voldemort is near by. But like Harry thinks to himself in OotP, 
Dumbledore has never been able to give a satisfactorily explanation 
for this connection. A possible explanation might be that Voldemort 
transferred more than just some of his powers that night, that in 
fact a part of Voldemort's mind was somehow transferred to Harry. Two 
separate parts of the same split up mind would have a strong 
connection.

-- "It happened very suddenly. The hook-nosed teacher looked past 
Quirrell's turban straight into Harry's eyes -- and a sharp, hot pain 
shot across the scar on Harry's forehead." [PS/SS]

"The hooded figure raised its head and looked right at Harry -- 
unicorn blood was dribbling down its front. It got to its feet and 
came swiftly toward Harry -- he couldn't move for fear.
Then a pain like he'd never felt before pierced his head; it was as 
though his scar were on fire. Half blinded, he staggered backward." 
[PS/SS]

"Harry did the best he could, trying to ignore the stabbing pains in 
his forehead, which had been bothering him ever since his trip into 
the forest." [PS/SS]

"Harry was rubbing his forehead.
'I wish I knew what this means!' he burst out angrily. 'My scar keeps 
hurting -- it's happened before, but never as often as this.'" [PS/SS]

If there is a part of Voldemort's mind inside Harry, it seems 
reasonable to assume that this separated part of Voldemort's mind is 
causing the pain Harry feels in his scar. The crippling stabbing 
pains Harry feels when Voldemort is near by are then most likely a 
result of the separated part of Voldemort desperately trying to 
return to Voldemort. Whenever Voldemort is near by Harry's head is 
always described as feeling like it is about to split open.

Quoted above are all the instances in PS/SS where Harry's scar hurt 
before his final showdown with Quirrellmort. After the incident at 
the start-of-term feast Harry doesn't feel his scar again until he 
meets Quirrellmort in the Forbidden Forest. Which isn't until a week 
before final exams. For almost nine months Harry is in close 
proximity of Voldemort and not a mention of the slightest hint of 
pain from his scar. Then in the week following his encounter with 
Quirrellmort Harry's scar practically won't stop hurting. Why doesn't 
Harry feel any pain in his scar before his encounter with 
Quirrellmort? This does not seem like an innocuous side effect which 
merely warns Harry when Voldemort is near by, this seems more like 
something caused by a conscious mind who until the trip into the 
forest simply was not aware that Voldemort was near by.

-- "'Naturally, naturally,' murmured Dumbledore apparently to 
himself, still observing the stream of smoke without the slightest 
sign of surprise. 'But in essence divided?'
Harry could make neither head nor tail of this question. The smoke 
serpent, however, split itself instantly into two snakes, both 
coiling and undulating in the dark air." [OotP]

Apparently the essence of something or someone is divided. It could 
well be that Dumbledore is talking about the essence of Voldemort, 
Voldemort's mind. The snakes would then represent the separate parts 
of Voldemort's mind, which share a bond but at the same time have 
been living completely separate lives for the past 15 years. One part 
trapped inside Harry watching him grow up, the other forced to go 
into exile waiting for his followers to finally come looking for him. 
Only when Voldemort kills Harry will the snakes at last become one 
again.

-- "And while Harry was sure he had never heard the name T. M. Riddle 
before, it still seemed to mean something to him, almost as though 
Riddle was a friend he'd had when he was very small, and had half-
forgotten. But this was absurd. He'd never had friends before 
Hogwarts, Dudley had made sure of that." [CoS]

It can't have been the anagram that made the name seem familiar, at 
that point in the story Harry didn't know Riddle's full name was Tom 
Marvolo Riddle.

What we have here then is clear evidence that there is a part of 
Voldemort's mind inside Harry and that this part of Voldemort has at 
one time attempted to influence Harry. It seems Harry had an 
imaginary friend when he was little. An imaginary friend going by the 
name Tom Riddle. So apparently the separated part of Voldemort's mind 
talked to Harry when he was very small. Why did he stop talking to 
Harry? Did Harry's mind grow to powerful for him, slowly swallowing 
him up in the process? Was it a tactical decision to stop talking to 
Harry? More importantly, will Tom Riddle eventually re-emerge and 
start talking to Harry again?

-- "Perhaps Harry had eaten a bit too much, because he had a very 
strange dream. He was wearing Professor Quirrell's turban, which kept 
talking to him, telling him he must transfer to Slytherin at once, 
because it was his destiny. Harry told the turban he didn't want to 
be in Slytherin; it got heavier and heavier; he tried to pull it off 
but it tightened painfully -- and there was Malfoy, laughing at him 
as he struggled with it -- then Malfoy turned into the hook-nosed 
teacher, Snape, whose laugh became high and cold -- there was a burst 
of green light and Harry woke, sweating and shaking." [PS/SS]

In his dream Harry is wearing Professor Quirrell's turban; of course 
later we find out that hidden underneath Professor Quirrell's turban 
was Voldemort. Which suggests that like Professor Quirrell there is a 
part of Voldemort's mind inside Harry. The turban is constantly 
talking to Harry, telling him he must transfer to Slytherin. And then 
eventually the weight of the turban starts to suffocate Harry. Which 
seems to suggest that the part of Voldemort inside of Harry has been 
trying to subconsciously influence him. If we can believe dream 
interpretation actually is an important means of divining the future, 
that is.

While we have our copies of 'The Dream Oracle' out, could the fact 
that Malfoy turns into Snape perhaps indicate that Malfoy will 
eventually switch sides like Snape once did?

-- "Lord Voldemort's gift for spreading discord and enmity is very 
great." [Dumbledore, GoF / Hermione, OotP]

This may be wishful thinking; but could Harry's hot-headedness in 
OotP have been caused by the part of Voldemort inside of Harry 
subconsciously influencing him? It seems suspicious that Harry's 
problems with his temper started at the exact same time Voldemort 
suddenly became a lot more powerful. Especially when combined with 
Quirrell's turban constantly talking to him in his dream. Is the 
separated part of Voldemort perhaps whispering nasty little thoughts 
to Harry while he's asleep? 


Canon supporting that Voldemort will kill Harry:
 
-- "Firenze saved me, but he shouldn't have done so... Bane was 
furious... he was talking about interfering with what the planets say 
is going to happen... They must show that Voldemort's coming back... 
Bane thinks Firenze should have let Voldemort kill me... I suppose 
that's written in the stars as well." [Harry, PS/SS]

The centaurs seem to have some deeper insight into the way in which 
the future will unfold. I'm not exactly sure Bane was aware of the 
fact that Firenze had just saved Harry from Voldemort, but he did 
accuse Firenze of setting himself against the heavens. Perhaps it 
*is* written in the stars that Voldemort will kill Harry.

-- "Professor Trelawney, however, did not sit down; her enormous eyes 
had been roving around the table, and she suddenly uttered a kind of 
soft scream.
'I dare not, Headmaster! If I join the table, we shall be thirteen! 
Nothing could be more unlucky! Never forget that when thirteen dine 
together, the first to rise will be the first to die!'" [GoF]

"... Harry and Ron got up first from the table and she shrieked 
loudly.
'My dears!  Which of you left his seat first? Which?'
'Dunno,' said Ron, looking uneasily at Harry." [GoF]

We'll ignore Professor Trelawney's usual predictions of Harry's death 
for a moment. Trelawney's reluctance to join the table comes from a 
powerful superstition which can be traced back to events described in 
the Bible. During the last supper Jesus was joined by his 12 
apostles. Judas who feared that Jesus knew he had betrayed him was 
the first to leave the table. And he was in fact the first to die 
when he hanged himself out of guilt over what he had done.

-- "For a fleeting instant, Harry thought he saw a gleam of something 
like triumph in Dumbledore's eyes. But next second. Harry was sure he 
had imagined it, for when Dumbledore had returned to his seat behind 
the desk, he looked as old and weary as Harry had ever seen him." 
[GoF]

I'm not sure if I dare suggest this; the gleam of triumph in 
Dumbledore's eye, could it be because Voldemort can now kill Harry? 
If Harry's death is a necessary step towards fulfilling the prophecy 
and ultimately the downfall of Voldemort, then Lilly's lingering 
protection was all that was standing in the way of this happening. I 
wouldn't even suggest this if it wasn't for the fact that a second 
later Dumbledore looked as old and weary as he had ever done. 
Dumbledore knows this also means Harry will have to die.

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I believe the separated part of Voldemort's mind will play an 
important part in Voldemort becoming truly alive again. There will 
probably have to be a fierce internal struggle inside Harry before 
the separated part of Voldemort's mind becomes human again. But then 
when Voldemort kills Harry the separated part of Voldemort's mind 
will finally be able to return to Voldemort, allowing Voldemort to 
experience the love it experienced while inside Harry. Feeling love 
will ultimately be what makes Voldemort truly alive again.

Comments, suggestions, anyone?

-Maus