Voldemort *inside* Harry's head (mind)? (Was: Re: Wanting or presenting: Was: Snape's reaction to Harry in Slytherin)

[Erin]

No: HPFGUIDX 93488

 Laura Ingalls Huntley  wrote:
 Speaking of voices, however, there's one instance from PS/SS that 
has always perplexed me:
> 
> "Harry jumped to his feet, caught Quirrell by the arm, and hung on 
as  tight as he could.  Quirrell screamed and tried to throw Harry 
off --  the pain in Harry's head was building -- he coundn'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!"" -- PS/SS, US Ed., "The Man With Two Faces," 
pg. 295.
>
 . . . why would Harry's inner voices be screaming his name?  V. odd, 
if you ask me.  
 Maybe it *is* Lily and James.


Erin:
I always thought it was Dumbledore, and maybe someone like McGonagall 
with him.  Mostly because of this conversation between Dumbledore and 
Harry:

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"I arrived just in time to pull Quirrel off you-"

"It was *you*."

"I feared I might be too late."

"You nearly were, I couldn't have kept him off the Stone much longer-"

"Not the Stone, boy, you- the effort involved nearly killed you.  For 
one terrible moment there, I was afraid it had." --PS/SS, US edition, 
Ch. 17, pg. 297.
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Erin:
I think that "It was *you*" is Harry saying he recognized that 
Dumbledore's voice was one of those he had heard at the last moment.



Laura Ingalls Huntley  wrote:
> All the other instances in the books of a "voice"  in Harry's head 
I  think of can be chalked up to that little voice *everyone* has in 
their head . . . Everybody *does* have that voice, right? *looks 
around*  

Erin:
Hear hear!  Far be it from me to discourage anyone from theorizing, 
but refering to one's inner thoughts as a "voice" is a fairly common 
literary device.  At least, I've seen it in plenty of other books 
*I've* read.  Sometimes a spade is just a spade.  

Honestly, though, I can't say I ever actually hear my thoughts as 
seperate voices... sometimes as "my" voice, the one I hear when I 
speak, certainly no one else's.  Sometimes when I think a sentence, 
I'll "see" it inside my head as if it were written on a piece of 
paper.



Erin