Voldemort *inside* Harry's head (mind)?
mightymaus75
mpjdekker at hotmail.com
Sat Mar 20 04:07:51 UTC 2004
No: HPFGUIDX 93472
--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "SnapesRaven"
<SnapesRaven at w...> wrote:
>
> I thought the voice might be Voldemort's, since he now shares
> Harry's blood and they had a connection through the scar all zhe
> time. I just didn't think of Voldemort using such subtle means,
> carefulle 'planting' bad feelings in Harry in order to make him
> turn from everyone he trusted thus far.
> Opinions, anyone?
>
> SnapesRaven
>
I was actually working on a post on the exact same subject. Your post
forced me to rush the following trough. If there are any spelling
mistakes I blame them on SnapesRaven. Some of you might remember a
theory I introduced a few months back called KITTENS & RAINBOWS (Key
Is The Transferred Essence Seeking Reunion. Affection Is Not Beyond
Obsessive Wicked Sorcerer.) This theory stated that Voldemort is not
truly alive, Voldemort cannot become truly alive until Harry dies,
and Harry carries a part of Voldemort's mind inside of him.
I believe it is this separated part of Voldemort's mind that
sometimes talks to Harry. In an earlier message I already suggested
that the name T.M. Riddle seemed familiar to Harry in CoS because the
separated part of Voldemort's mind talked to Harry when he was still
very small. Since then he has become a lot quieter, but he hasn't
completely stopped talking to Harry. Not counting attacks by Imperio
or Legillimency, I found the following instances in which Harry hears
a voice inside his head:
In PS/SS Harry hears voices which maybe were coming from inside his
own head at the end of the fight with Quirrellmort: "Quirrell
screamed and tried to throw Harry off – the pain in Harry's head was
building – he couldn't see – he could only hear Quirrell's terrible
shrieks and Voldemort's yells of, 'KILL HIM! KILL HIM!' and other
voices, maybe in Harry's own head, crying, 'Harry! Harry!'" Harry
hears more than one voice crying 'Harry! Harry!'. One of these voices
certainly is Dumbledore coming just in time to pull Harry away from
Professor Quirrell, but who does the other voice belong to? The fact
that Harry was not sure if the voices were coming from outside his
own head suggests that the other voice came from inside his head.
In CoS Harry hears a nasty little voice in his brain when he is lying
in bed after the duelling club: "But I'm in Gryffindor, Harry
thought. The Sorting Hat wouldn't have put me in here if I had
Slytherin blood... Ah, said a nasty little voice in his brain, but
the Sorting Hat wanted to put you in Slytherin, don't you remember?
Harry turned over. He'd see Justin the next day in Herbology and he'd
explain that he'd been calling the snake off, not egging it on, which
(he thought angrily, pummelling his pillow) any fool should have
realised." Could be just a figure of speech; we all have little
voices of doubt in our head now and then. But then maybe that's what
JKR wants us to think?
In PoA Harry hears a voice inside his head when he has his want
pointed at Sirius: "'WE'RE UP HERE!' Hermione screamed
suddenly. 'WE'RE UP HERE – SIRIUS BLACK – QUICK!'
Black made a startled movement that almost dislodged Crookshanks;
Harry gripped his wand convulsively – Do it now! said a voice in his
head – but the footsteps were thundering up the stairs and Harry
still hadn't done it." Not many of us hear voices inside our head
telling us to kill other people.
In OotP Harry hears a voice inside his head when he is attacked by
the Dementors: "But there was no happiness in him... the Dementor's
icy fingers were closing on his throat – the high-patched laughter
was growing louder and louder, and a voice spoke inside his
head: 'Bow to death, Harry... it might even be painless... I would
not know... I have never died.'" We all assume that what Harry heard
was the Dementor talking telepathically inside his head, but then the
voice says: 'Bow to death, Harry'. Harry was told to bow to death
once before. Voldemort used the exact same words in the dark and
overgrown graveyard in GoF. Perhaps it wasn't the Dementor Harry
heard inside his head.
In OotP Harry hear a small and truthful voice inside his head after
Ron and Hermione received their prefect badges: "He had forgotten
completely about prefects being chosen in the fifth year. He had been
too anxious about the possibility of being expelled to spare a
thought for the fact that badges must be winging their way towards
certain people. But if he had remembered... if he had thought about
it... what would he have expected? Not this, said a small and
truthful voice inside his head." The small voice then goes on to have
an entire conversation with Harry. It isn't entirely clear what the
small voice is trying to achieve in this conversation, but the whole
passage certainly does come across as being very schizophrenic.
In OotP Harry hears a nagging voice inside his head after seeing
Snape's worst memory in the Pensieve: "He had been so sure his
parents were wonderful people that he had never had the slightest
difficulty in disbelieving the aspersions Snape cast on his father's
character. Hadn't people like Hagrid and Sirius told Harry how
wonderful his father had been? (Yeah, well, look what Sirius was like
himself, said a nagging voice inside Harry's head... he was as bad,
wasn't he?)" Could be just a figure of speech; we all have little
voices of doubt in our head now and then. But then maybe that's what
JKR wants us to think?
In OotP Harry hears an unbidden voice inside his head when he's
running along the rows filled with prophecies: "Some of them had a
weird, liquid glow; others were as dull and dark within as blown
light bulbs. They passed row eighty-four... eighty-five... Harry was
listening hard for the slightest sound of movement, but Sirius might
be gagged now, or else unconscious... or, said an unbidden voice
inside his head, he might already be dead..." Could be just a figure
of speech; we all have little voices of doubt in our head now and
then. But then maybe that's what JKR wants us to think?
And again in OotP hears a small voice inside his head when the two-
way mirror fails to contact Sirius: "Nothing happened. The frustrated
face looking back out of the mirror was still, definitely, his own...
Sirius didn't have his mirror on him when he went through the
archway, said a small voice in Harry's head. That's why it's not
working... Harry remained quite still for a moment, then hurled the
mirror back into the trunk where it shattered." Could be just a
figure of speech; we all have little voices of doubt in our head now
and then. But then maybe that's what JKR wants us to think?
Could these voices in Harry's head be a separated part of Voldemort's
mind talking to Harry? Some of them can perhaps be explained as just
being a figure of speech, but that certainly can't explain all of
them. And interestingly the number of instances in which Harry is
described as hearing a voice inside his head seems to be increasing
in OotP.
-Maus
I'm happy to announce that KITTENS & RAINBOWS now also has it's own
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