Inside Harry's mind

[iris_ft]

No: HPFGUIDX 117712


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:

 
> I think Harry was born with powers similar to those of his parents,
> who were talented and fairly powerful wizards but nowhere near as
> powerful as Tom Riddle (putting the memory of yourself into a 
diary so
> that you can possess the person who confides in it is no mean 
feat).
> But the bit of Voldie that entered his mind gave him additional 
powers
> that he was not born with, powers which, when fully developed, will
> make him Voldie's equal.
> 
> IMO, the venomous anger he's been feeling in OoP, but not in the
> earlier books, is something new and different, a strengthening of 
the
> bond created by the scar and/or the deliberate manipulation of 
Harry's
> emotions by Voldemort. It's not part of Voldie that has always 
been in
> him. And the traits that might have placed him in Slytherin had he 
not
> protested, presumably the "thirst to prove himself," could as 
easily
> be an inheritance from show off James, who liked to be admired, as 
the
> more obviously ambitious Voldemort. At any rate, there's no 
mention of
> cunning or an attraction to the Dark Arts, presumably the traits 
that
> made the hat instantly scream "Slytherin!" when it touched Draco
> Malfoy's head.
>
 
One question comes to my mind after reading this thread, and more 
especially what you write, Carol : what if « the bit of Voldemort » 
inside Harry was there BEFORE what happened in Godric's Hollow ?
After all, maybe some of Voldemort's powers were left in Harry 
because there was already in the boy something special, making him 
particularly receptive to them. Something like a  "compost" or 
an "atavism"; I don't know. 
I don't like precisely that idea, and moreover it is not already 
very clear, I need to consider it better; but I wonder if Harry 
wasn't "partly Voldemort" even before the Dark Lord tried to kill 
him. 

Just a supposition, probably completely out of topic,

Amicalement,

Iris