Satellite!Harry

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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. 

Snow:

Thank you for your response, Carol, but how would you account for 
Voldemort's quote that "only one power remained to me. I could 
possess the bodies of others." Is this just the uttering of a former 
vapor-self who was unable to use his abilities
if so why is Voldemort 
capable of using a power (parceltongue) which we know has been 
permanently transferred to Harry? If Harry is in possession of the 
ability, transferred to him through Voldemort, to speak parceltongue, 
how can baby!Voldy or any form of Voldemort speak parceltongue when 
it is no longer in his possession, unless he has access to it? 

Carol:
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. 

Snow:

Good point, however, Harry's scar was responding to Voldemort and his 
endeavors to use magic `himself', not through someone else. The scar 
would not have been the intensely sensitive conductor it is, at the 
beginning. At the beginning, it was only when Harry was physically 
close in proximity to Vapormort that induced any pain, and then it 
was referred to as just a `hurt'. 
Voldemort's powers are very much alive in Harry and accessible 
through Harry even when he was Vapormort but Harry's scar response to 
the use of the powers Voldemort is accessing only grew with 
Voldemort's physical formation. It was only when Voldy became Baby!
mort (a real physical substance) that Harry was capable of actually 
viewing Voldemort's schemes through his accessed powers, which 
intensified Harry's scar pain.  

Carol:
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.

Snow:

The worst properties of the powers that Harry has unknowingly 
acquired from Voldemort is exactly what makes Harry's statement at 
the end of OOP so utterly ironic:

"But I don't!" said Harry in a strangled voice. "I haven't any powers 
he hasn't got. I couldn't fight the way he did tonight, I can't 
possess people—or kill them—"

Harry has never acquired the power to possess people; this statement 
came from Voldy himself; so Harry defiantly is correct that he does 
not have the power to possess people. The next statement is that he 
can't kill people, which is also correct via the information from 
Bella at the MOM:

"Never used an Unforgivable Curse before, have you, boy!" [
] "You 
need to mean them, Potter! You need to really want to cause pain—to 
enjoy it—righteous anger wont hurt me for long
"

Why can Harry not use an unforgivable curse
because, like Dumbledore, 
he is too noble to use them or to understand that he has the power to 
use them via the Voldemort legacy unknowingly bestowed on him.
The examples that Harry gave as to why he can't fight like Voldemort 
are the only ones that actually give a reason why Harry can't fight 
like Voldemort. 

Snow—who occasionally wishes this were a chat room instead of an 
adult forum
No offence to you Carol