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 
website: http://home.hccnet.nl/p.s.dekker/HPtheory.html






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