Satellite!Harry

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 121633


Snow wrote:
> 
> Harry has all but one of Voldy's powers locked inside him so that 
when Voldy accesses the powers he believes himself to have, Harry has
 excruciating pain as a result. Below are some canon references I used
to determine this accusation:
><snip>
> 
> "Unless I'm much mistaken, he transferred some of his own powers to 
> you the night he gave you that scar." 	COS Dobby's Reward
> 
> 
> On the other hand Voldemort states that he lost `all but one' of his 
> powers the night at Godric's Hollow:
> 
> "Only one power remained to me. I could possess the bodies of 
> others." GOF The Death Eaters pg. 653
> 
> This concludes, to me, that Harry was the benefactor of Voldemort's 
> remaining powers the night at Godric's Hollow. <snip>
>
Carol responds:
Interesting theory (I wouldn't call it an accusation, since you're not
accusing anybody of anything). But there's a simpler explanation.
Maybe Baby Harry received some but not all of Voldemort's powers (the
only one he's displayed so far is Parseltongue) and Voldemort didn't
lose his powers per se but only the ability to use them. Without his
body, he couldn't use a wand or even speak. Later, he was able to use
his powers through Quirrell (I doubt that Quirrell could have broken
into Gringotts using his own powers), and even as Baby!mort, he could
use a wand. Now that Voldie has his own body magically restored to
him, he can use Legilimency, and presumably, he uses Parseltongue to
speak to Nagini. There's no question that he can use the Unforgiveable
Curses, a power that Harry so far lacks and hopefully will never fully
develop.

I'm not saying that your theory is wrong, but it isn't the only
possible explanation. Certainly the Harry of OoP is more in contact
with Voldemort's feelings and less able to separate them from his own
than he's been in previous books, so maybe you're right--or partially
right. The pain in his head, however, results from hitting the window
and later from Dudley's fist slamming into his head, so there's a
logical explanation for the feeling of his head being split in two.
Whether it has an additional symbolic meaning is impossible to say at
this point.

Carol, noting that she typed "and will" instead of "a will" in her
previous post and hoping that this one doesn't contain any typos