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

[Laura Ingalls Huntley]

No: HPFGUIDX 93489

Ergh.  Everybody forget that last post of mine and just read the one by 
"mightymaus75."  I really should have hit the "Get Mail" button once 
more before hit the "Send" button.  Drat.

Anyway, "mightymaus75's" post is quite brilliant, IMO, and she/he says 
everything I was (rather gracelessly) trying to say *and* much, much 
more, including several half-formed ideas I had but was too lazy to put 
into words.

Especially the part about Harry getting more than just a bit of Voldy's 
magic (e.g. parseltounge) from the encounter on Halloween, but also a 
bit of his mind.

This theory feels v. good to me, except for the fact that the voice is 
often benevolent and/or wise (and even once sounds like Hermione), 
which doesn't exactly level w/ the idea that it's a bit of Voldy's 
consciousness stuck in Harry.

Also, "mightmaus75" wrote:
 > 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.

Actually, Harry *always* hears Voldemort's voice in his head when 
Dementors are near -- as making people relive their "worst memories" is 
what Dementors *do*.  Pre-GoF, Harry's worst memory was his mother's 
death.  Post-GoF, it was the Graveyard Scene.  In both cases, Harry 
heard Voldemort's voice reciting lines from those instances.

Laura