Harry/Voldemort fusion theory

[scoobytorch]

No: HPFGUIDX 110976

I think it's safe to say that JKR is familiar with Jung's work.  I've 
haphazardly paging through "Memories, Dreams, Reflections" lately and 
two of the dreams that Jung describes really jumped out at me. 

In the first dream he is in a meadow when he notices a hole in the 
ground with a stone staircase leading down.  Hesitantly he descends 
and finds a doorway at the bottom, covered by a curtain.  He pushes 
aside the curtain to see what is inside.   
"I saw before me in the dim light a rectangular chamber about thirty 
feet long.  The ceiling was arched and of hewn stone.  The floor was 
laid with flagstones, and in the center a red carpet ran from the 
entrance to a low platform. One this platform stood a wonderfully 
rich golden throne.  I am not certain, but perhaps a red cushion lay 
on the seat.  It was a magnificent throne, a real king's throne in a 
fairy tale.  Something was standing on it, which I thought at first 
was a tree trunk twelve to fifteen feet high and about on and a half 
to two feet thick.  It was a huge thing, reaching almost to the 
ceiling.  But it was of a curious composition: it was made of skin 
and naked flesh, and n top there was something like a rounded head 
with no face and no hair.  On the very top of the head was a single 
eye, gazing motionlessly upward." p. 13
Jung was terrified of this "thing" and afraid to go to sleep for 
several nights after the dream.

A giant, threatening phallus in an underground stone chamber?  Sounds 
familiar...

And another dream, after he had begun to study Alchemy as an adult.  

"I dreamed once more that my house had a large wing which I had never 
visited.  I resolved to look at it, and finally entered.  I came to a 
big double door.  When I opened it, I found myself in a room set up 
as a laboratory.  In front of the window stood a table covered with 
many glass vessels and all the paraphernalia of a zoological 
laboratory.  This was my father's workroom.  However, he was not 
there.  On shelves along the walls stood hundreds of bottles 
containing every imaginable sort of fish.  I was astonished: so now 
my father was going in for ichthyology!"  p. 213

The labratory with glass vessels on the desk, and bottles of fish 
lining the walls sound like Snape's classroom or office to me.  All 
it needs is some slimy things in jars, instead of fish. 

"As I stood there and looked around I noticed a curtain which bellied 
out from time to time, as though a strong wind were blowing." p. 213

He sends a young man into the room behind the curtain to see if a 
window was open.  The young man returned some time later claiming the 
room was haunted.  Then dream Jung himself goes into the room, and 
discovers that it's his mother's room.  His mother had been dead for 
some time, and in this room she was visited by spirits.  

The curtain reminds me of The Veil.  It's interesting that Jung goes 
through the curtain and discovers that behind it is a place for 
visiting with spirits.

I'll have to re-read your post when I'm more awake, but I wanted to 
mention these other Jung connections for now.  

Julie