Inside Harry's mind

[nrenka]

No: HPFGUIDX 117628


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arrowsmithbt" 
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:

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> possible lack of restraint on the fragment of Voldy that
> is already there - well, it  does give one hope for some truly nasty
> happenings.  He could move into Slytherin for a start. Then he 
> could  eventually see the error of his ways and become the 'good' 
> Slytherin that everybody has been waiting for.

This isn't quite on-thread, but I have a question that relates to the 
general premise, and maybe some thoughts for its bases...

Why a 'fragment' of Voldie, which assumes some sort of essential 
transfer (and a division of 'what is voldie and what is harry'), and 
not something like an impression left *by* Voldie on something that 
is and was originally Harry?

[My sick sad mind wants to equate it with the differences between 
musical imitation and representation, but let's ignore that.]

I am in the camp that believes Harry had some sort of natural talents 
from the get go, although with the Prophecy, it is of course 
ambiguous whether the 'one with the power' was that before he 
was 'marked as the Dark Lord's equal' or not...but the wording seems 
to imply that there was something *there* beforehand, to be marked.

You can't make an impression in air, after all.

But the impression/influence argument, that the stuff of Harry was 
somehow shaped/changed by the stuff of Voldie, without a piece of the 
other stuff necessarily being left behind (as a separate entity)...I 
think it's worth consideration.

This is getting into Rowling's metaphysics, which are exceedingly 
obscure at present.  "Why didn't Voldemort die?" asks some questions 
that we have spotty background to try to answer, IMHO.  Not that that 
should or would ever stop us from trying...

-Nora ponders the issues of representation, imitation, 
interpretation, realization...(with figured bass)