Inside Harry's mind

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No: HPFGUIDX 117602


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "annemehr" <annemehr at y...> wrote:
> 
> Annemehr:
> Oooooooh. Never even thought of that before, the Lily-protection-thing
> keeping Harry's inner Voldy in check.
> 
> In CoS, it almost seems that Dumbledore views Harry carrying a bit of
> LV around an advantage, doesn't it? "Not something he meant to do." 
> But after GoF, he's afraid of it.
> 
> Puts a new spin on the Occlumency lessons, too.  If LV is putting
> thoughts into Harry's head, is he really doing it *through* Harry's
> bit of him?  That would negate any considerations of distance between
> their physical bodies; LV now has a permanent proximity to him and
> something much, much more intimate than mere eye contact.  It gets LV
> behind all the Hogwarts defenses in a way, as well.
> 
> But on Harry's side, he's very stubborn. Determined. Strong-willed.  I
> think that quality is all Harry's.  So he'll put up quite a fight.
> 

Yeah, I've mentioned his personality change before, as have others, but
thought it was the effect of the dreams -  an outside influence - rather
than something stirring internally. Could be both of  course, one
boosting the other.

Mind you, so far as we're aware Harry  is the only person that Voldy
can get  at from a distance; oh there's the Dark Mark, but that appears
to be more of a paging system than bi-lateral communications. And
when Harry  also happens to be the only individual that has a piece
of Voldy right there in his head - a maggot  burrowing into the cream
cheese - it offers an explanation of why he can communicate at a distance.

It's likely that Voldy sees an unprotected Harry as a Trojan Horse and yes,
he could see it as a  way to get behind the defences of both Hogwarts
and the Order. He's made a first try with trying to get Harry to attack
DD. Of course, if he was a really Machiavellian type of villain his most
effective ploy could be to influence Harry to do nothing, to opt out of
the fight. That would leave DD in a hell of a mess. 

The mind influence seems to be  different to the possession he attempted
at the Ministry, much more subtle and with no sign that it can be excluded
by whatever it was that forced Voldy  to abandon the possession attempt.

Determined and stubborn. Is this a good thing? Remember  DD in CoS?
"You have many qualities Salazar Slytherin prized in his hand-picked
students. His own very rare gift, Parseltongue...resourcefulness... 
determination....a certain disregard for the rules."
And the Hat considers Slytherins stubborn - " ...use any means to achieve
there ends."

It all depends on just what it is Harry gets determined and stubborn about.
If he continues in the same vein as he did in DD's study at the end of OoP,
lashing out, blaming everybody in sight, it could get very hairy indeed.

Kneasy