Clues in COS

[whimsyflower]

No: HPFGUIDX 80718

       Tonight I read through the many, excellently thought-provoking posts
(eg: 79877, 79891, 79901. 79908. 79909, 79947, 79966, 80081, 80269, and 
80320, to highlight only a few) that considered the question of what big
clue(s) did JKR write into COS that "almost gave it away."   


        I read them with the prophecy echoing in the back of my brain.",,,and
either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the
other survives"  


       So here I am, in the COS, watching Riddle's outline become more firm
and clear as the life drained out of Ginny.  In this instance, one of them 
couldn't  live "fully" while the other survived.  Riddle said he could leave
the diary  because Ginny put so much of herself into the diary.  " I grew
stronger and stronger on a diet of her deepest fears, her darkest secrets.  I 
grew powerful"  (COS, Am ed, p 310)  By using the parts of Ginny she put into 
the diary, Riddle became strong enough to leave the diary.   After Harry 
plunged the basilisk fang into the diary and Riddle's memory died, Ginny 
came back to life.   Evidently the souls of witches and wizards can travel 
around a bit. 

      For a while now LV has been putting parts of himself into Harry,
first with the AK curse when Harry was one-year old (Parseltongue and what 
else?) and more recently with the thoughts or images he planted in Harry's 
brain in OOTP.   Maybe LV will put more into Harry in Books 6 & 7.  He's also
taken parts of Harry into himself, most noteably Harry's blood in LV's
rebirthing scene in GOF.  What if when LV goes to kill Harry in Book 7, what
dies is all the parts of LV in Harry?  

It probably won't be that simple, but I'd love to hear others'
thoughts.

Whimsy