Voldemort, the Prophecy and the HBP

[candlekicks]

No: HPFGUIDX 110277

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. 
> > <snip> 
> 
> > 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. 
 
Mandy <ExSlytherin at a...> wrote:
> 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?     
>
<snip> 
>
> 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. 


Linda:
I don't know that I buy into a possession theory (Tom said that he 
found out he was the heir and then went searching for the Chamber, 
not that he found the Chamber and realized that he was the heir...), 
but we do have canon to refer to to talk about possession. Quirrell 
wasn't the only one that Voldemort possessed in the series. Ginny 
Weasley has also been possessed by LV. Assuming that your possession 
theories are correct, Tom would have already been possessed by the 
demon when he created the diary and yet we know that Ginny lived 
beyond her possession in CoS. Harry has also had Voldemort invade 
his mind, through his dreams and visions of the Department of 
Mysteries and also when he is egging DD on in the MoM. Again, he 
lived.
:) Linda