Patronus-Animagus / JKR's 2 questions (theory) / Snape

[vmonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 120802


Suzy wrote:
1) If his current body was weak enough to be defeated by another
power, what better way to recover than to "possess" his conqueror? At
this point his conqueror would be physically and mentally tired by
battle, open to psychic attack, and his guard would be down, leaving
him vulnerable. As Mr Burns in the Simpsons might say: "Eeeexcellent".
By the very fact of Voldemort's defeat, it would follow that the body
to be possessed would be stronger than his own, therefore: quick and
easy way to overcome defeat and turn it into an even greater coup for
Voldemort!

vmonte responds:
Good post! I often wonder what happened to Salazar. If I run with 
your idea do you think it's possible that SS found immortality via 
possession? As you say, this is an easy answer to the immortality 
problem. If so, I wonder if all the transformations made Salazar 
forget who he originally was.  Is he now something other than human? 

Kneasy believed that perhaps there was an evil entity that was 
attaching itself to host bodies. Was Grindelwald one of these host 
bodies? Was Tom Riddle the next host? Could Tom have been a willing 
carrier for this soul? (Because I still believe that the host has to 
be a willing participant. It goes along with Dumbledore's 
speech: `It's our choices that make us who we are.')  Is this entity 
Salazar, who has survived death via becoming a parasite? Is it 
possible that when Voldemort attacked baby Harry that this entity and 
Tom Riddle's soul split apart/severed? Did one of these enter Harry's 
body and the other remained in the Voldemort host body? 

It is interesting that the first time we meet Voldemort he is living 
like a parasite in back of Quirrell's head. I also keep wondering why 
Harry had deja vu when he found Tom Riddle's diary.  In CoS Harry 
felt like he knew Tom Riddle, as though he was once a childhood 
friend (I'm paraphrasing a lot). Harry also kept looking at the diary 
as though he wanted to finish the story that was started. 

It's all very curious...

vmonte