Resolving "In Essence Divided" With The Prophecy

[annunathradien]

No: HPFGUIDX 107601

dcgmck:

> > > Clearly, Voldemort cannot live as a whole being while Harry 
> > survives, stubbornly holding onto Voldie's other half.  Harry, as 
> > well, cannot survive as a whole being as long as half of 
Voldemort 
> > takes up half of Harry's mind.   

Entropy:
 
> With this in mind, I've been practically tripping over references 
to 
> things being split  or paired.  Here are a few on my mind:
> 
> 1.  Fred and George: They are not just twins. They seem to be wholly
> of the same mind; finishing each others' thoughts and such.  They 
can
> truly be described as one mind in two bodies.
> 
> 2.  Don't know how I neglected to  mention it the first time around,
> but the green-smoke snake which issues from Dumbledore's instrument 
as
> he murmurs "But in essence divided?"  It splits into two snakes in
> answer to his question.
> 
> 3. When Voldie possesses Harry in the MOM: "...they were fused
> together, bound by pain...."
> 
> 4.  And where is it that Harry feels as if his head will split open,
> split in two, or some such thing? I know I've seen it...

annunthradien:

Isn't there also a reference in COS where Harry sees Tom Riddle's 
name for the first time and he recognizes it?  As if it were a 
distant memory?  

It's also possible socks could work into this speculation as well.  
Dobby mismatches all of Harry's socks, obviously one normally wears 
them in matching pairs.  Harry's mismatched socks represent the 
mismatched duelling souls (psyches or whatever) constantly battling 
it out in his head?

I also recall Harry receiving that easter egg from Mrs. Weasley in 
OOTP.  Harry's reaction was particularly emotional and he didn't seem 
to understand why.  Harry remembering his own red-headed mother, 
Lily, via the Weasley red-hair (Molly and Ginny)... struck a chord in 
Voldemort/Tom of a nostalgia of a mother he never knew?  The 
Voldemort/Tom in Harry able to experience a mother's love through 
Harry's affection for Lily and the Weasleys?  Unless there was a rare 
occassion of someone (a mother figure?) who actually showed kindness 
to Tom at Easter and he never forgot it?  I lean towards a mother or 
mother figure not only for the red-headed Lily/Weasley connection but 
an egg is also very symbolic of fertility and/or motherhood.

Harry also says numerous times throughout OOTP that he didn't 
understand why he was feeling the way he was.  Being jealous of Ron 
getting the prefect badge for example.  We know that in school Tom 
Riddle had been particularly gifted and ambitious.  He'd been Head 
Boy, it wouldn't surprise me he was prefect too (I believe Dumbledore 
says this somewhere in the text).  Maybe it wouldn't have mattered to 
Harry had he not gotten that badge, but I could have certainly 
imagined Tom being very resentful if someone else got the badge over 
him while he was in school.  

annunathradien