Voldemort, the Prophecy and the HBP

[Mandy]

No: HPFGUIDX 110236

> Pippin wrote:
<snipped an interesting theory on the HPB>
> Now on to the prophecy, the only way it makes sense to me, and 
> then, like most riddles, it becomes absurdly simple, is if the 
> "other" is a third party. 

> Suppose  the Other is  a demon possessor of Riddle. As we 
> know, Tom has done something to himself so that he can't die. 
> People have been assuming that the possession is the reason, 
> but that can't be right, because possession is usually fatal. 
> 
> Rather, I think Tom was possessed first, after he entered the 
> chamber (thus the red glint in the eyes of Riddle) and he isn't 
> dead because one of those dangerous transformations he went 
> through prevents him from dying. Then we can read the prophecy 
> this way:
> 
> Either [Tom or Harry] must die at the hand of the other [demon] 
> for neither [Tom nor Harry] can live if the other[demon] survives. 
> 
> My guess is, Harry has to render Voldemort killable,  so that 
> Voldemort, like Quirrell,  will die when his possessor  abandons 
> him. But Harry must not kill Voldemort himself. Rather he must 
> find a way to destroy or banish the demon.

Now me:
Very interesting.  I'm confused over your statement that possession 
is usually fatal. Could you give examples, because I don't think it 
has to be?   Is it not possible for the possessor to choose to keep 
the host alive?  Or perhaps if the host, in this case Tom Riddle, 
dies the possessor will die too?  We have seen that LV kept Quirrell 
alive because he needed a living body to inhabit; perhaps your 
possessor does the same? 

Also, I had always assumed that Tom went through his dangerous 
transformations after he left Hogwarts and disappeared into the wilds 
of Romania.  Perhaps the daemon possessor, and I agree with Kneasy's 
theory that the possessor is Salazar Slytherin, entered and possessed 
Tom as he opened the Chamber, kept him alive and encouraged Tom's 
decent deeper into the Dark side of magic?  The combination of Tom 
and Salazar Slytherin creating Lord Voldemort. 

Cheers Mandy