Questions! Questions! Questions!

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 110343

psyche 
"We've seen that some of Voldemort passed into Harry (parseltongue, 
memories), so it seems plausible that some of Harry passed into 
Voldemort.  Perhaps this exchange was lifeforce, for want of a better word."

DuffyPoo:
I guess I'm the only one who doesn't really believe HP got his Parseltongue abilites from LV.  He may well have, but I'm not convinced he didn't come by it naturally.  Just because "it's not a very common *gift*" doesn't mean he got it from LV.  TR saying "Probably the only two Parselmouths to come to Hogwarts since the great Slytherin himself," means nothing; he doesn't know, he's only presuming (he's been out of school nearly 50 years, and I'm quite certain he didn't know everything about every student in the school for the previous 950 or so years).  Since the magical community believe being able to converse with snakes is the mark of a Dark wizard, I'm not sure too many witches/wizards would make it widely known if they had that particular gift.  When Ernie Macmillan is talking to fellow Hufflepuffs, about HP being a Parselmouth, he mentions Salazar Slytherin, but doens't mention Riddle/LV.  Is he simiply overlooking him or does he not know? This same goes for Ron and Hermione...they mentioned Slytherin, not TR/LV.  DD says, "Unless I'm much mistaken, he transferred some of his own powers to you" but I've yet to see any indication of any other 'power' that may or may not have been transferred.  When questioned by HP about this, DD said, "it certainly seems so."  That doesn't mean it is, just that, to DD, it appears to be what happened.  As DD believes HP is the one referred to in the prophecy, he believes many things about him, all of which may not turn out to be true.



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