What were the corridor dreams ?

[dungrollin]

No: HPFGUIDX 117043


Del:
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So finally I reach my real question : what were those dreams ???

Here are some ideas I've had.
1. They were real dreams that LV was having every night.
2. They were dreams LV was deliberately implanting in Harry's mind.
3. They were real explorations of the DoM by LV in his body.
4. The only other possibility I can think of, is that those visions 
are real explorations of the DoM by LV *out of his body*.

Dungrollin:

I have a couple of questions to add...

Firstly:
Why is it during the Occlumency lesson when Harry's being 
Legilimensed by Snape that (in the vision) he finally gets through 
the door into the DoM?  The previous time that he sees the corridor 
in an Occlumency lesson (the first lesson), it's actually the 
*memory* of being there with Mr. Weasley, it's not a vision.  
Harry's expecting to go towards the door, but they turn off
towards the courtroom, and he recognises it for the first time.  But 
in the lesson in which he gets *through* the door, it can't be a 
memory that Snape's accessing, can it?  Because Harry's never
seen it before.  

Also:
The two times that Harry feels the urge to attack DD are the only 
two times that they have any close contact in OotP before the grand 
finale.  It's a bit odd that Voldy is there and waiting, both
times, isn't it?  Out of a whole school year in which Voldy could
be in Harry's head, he's just happens to be there during the
only two opportunities, (each lasting only a few seconds) in which
Harry sees DD closely.  Suggests something very permanent about the 
connection, to me.

Furthermore:
It could be that Harry just happens to be tuning into Voldyvision 
when Voldy's dreaming of the DoM (someone else pointed out that
he really is very *very* obsessed with the prophecy, to the 
exclusion of almost all else).  The connection between Harry and 
Voldy is at its strongest when Voldy's feeling strong emotion,
and the fear of what the rest of that prophecy says, along with his 
deep desire to get hold of it could make those dreams the unsettling 
kind that you wake up from in a cold sweat. (If Voldy does anything 
as un-reptilian as sweating.)

But if this is so, why doesn't Harry find himself down at the end
of row ninety-seven staring longingly at the glass orb with his own 
name and that of the Dark Lord on it?  He doesn't.  He just gets
to the right place, with a very strong feeling that there's
something in here that he wants really really badly, but with no 
idea why. Voldy knows why, but Harry doesn't.  Knowledge of facts
is thus apparently not shared through the mind-link (at least not 
from Voldy to Harry), but the view out of the eyes, along with 
emotional states and desires, are; even if the objects of those 
desires are not explicit. 

Dungrollin
Who'd love to spend the rest of the day thinking about this, but
has to write a report by yesterday, and will anyway spend much of 
today berating herself for having been horribly lazy yesterday, so 
had better get on with writing it today...