Death, Harry and Voldemort

[pandrea100]

No: HPFGUIDX 105165

Ginger wrote: Could Voldemort somehow 
> encourage and then use Harry's explorations into to death to 
further 
> his own means?

YES!  This is my theory also.  My best guess is that Sirius' mirror 
might be linked to this.  Say Harry puts it together and takes to 
looking in it, trying to contact Sirius somehow.  Voldemort, still 
being linked to him (I *think*, because he was only 'pushed out' 
temporarily, the link which made Harry feel V's anger etc should 
still be there), senses this and tries to use it.  OR maybe it's 
actually nothing to do with Voldemort - maybe it's just another 
instance of the uncanny parallel between them that, at a similar age 
to Tom, Harry is also led to begin investigating death and eternal 
life.  By the way, they also both have phoenix feather wands, maybe 
the wands were right for them because they 'sensed' that their owners 
would investigate death and rebirth?

However - the crucial thing, I suggest, will be that Harry will pull 
back from this.  Unlike Tom, he will realise he has to accept death 
and say goodbye to Sirius (and his parents).  Maybe there will be a 
choice between wallowing in this and something to do with his friends 
who are alive.  

I can also see some objections to this theory though.  Maybe it's a 
little too similar to the Mirror of Erised, where Harry had to learn 
to overcome the temptation to spend his days communing with the dead 
through that medium.  Maybe it's even too similar to Ginny becoming 
possessed by DiaryTom (especially if Voldemort or a minion is behind 
the temptation) - but then again, this could also be used positively 
as Ginny (and maybe Luna?) could help pull Harry back from this, 
based on their experience.  So far JK has not had to repeat 
storylines; but then, she does sometimes echo things from earlier 
books which turn out to be deliberately planted to set things up.

If this storyline does come to pass (and no, I have no idea how the 
Half Blood Prince would fit in!), I think it would be really 
interesting.  I think, too, that it would preclude the possibility of 
the rather gory "who's next to DIE?" theories.

Pandrea