Possession

[koinonia02]

No: HPFGUIDX 89894

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arrowsmithbt" 
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:

> Possession. The mental(?) control of another being. Very  different
> from the ability to  read minds. 
> In canon it seems that only Voldy can do this - why?

"K"
I probably shouldn't even be answering this as I don't have time to 
go into great detail, but Voldy isn't the only one who has the 
ability 
to control others. This is something that Harry can also do, IMO.

  
> Kneasy
> Could it be that Tom is an (almost) innocent victim? Shock!Horror!

"K"

No. I don't think so. 

BBC Newsround/Fall 2000
Interview with J.K. Rowling, Transcript

Voldemort's a half-blood too


JKR: Like Hitler! See! I think it's the case that the biggest bully 
takes their own defects and they put them on someone else, and they 
try to destroy them. And that's what he Voldemort does. That was very 
conscious - I wanted to create a villain where you could understand 
the workings of his mind, not just have a 2-D baddie, dressed up in 
black, and I wanted to explore that and see where that came from. 
Harry in Book Four is starting to come to terms with what makes a 
person turn that way. Because they took wrong choices and he Voldemort
took wrong choices from an early age.~~

"K"