LV in the MOM Atrium; Harry's Possession?

[Hannah]

No: HPFGUIDX 126774


>Chys wrote:
> Ok, I have a question- The whole purpose of the OoTP event in the
> Ministry of Magic's Department of Mysteries was that Voldemort
> himself NOT be there, that Harry do the dirty work of retrieving 
the
> prophecy for him, correct?
> 
> So then was Voldemort ever actually IN the Atrium that evening?
> Or was it that he was posessing Harry to attack Dumbledore? Could
> that be why Harry had no idea what was going on on the other side 
of
> the statue that was 'defending' him and herding him away- when in
> actuality it was LV posessing him and he just didn't know what was
> going on as he was too concerned with trying to get a good look at
> the unfolding action? He obviouly wouldn't see it from behind a
> statue, when he was the centerpoint of said action.
> 
> This has been nagging at me, as I can't remember a scene where
> Voldemort's actually -seen- in that battle. DD could have been
> talking to LV through Harry, and couldn't that be why it sounded 
like 
> LV kept trying to get DD to kill Harry? That he was not there at 
all, 
> but fighting -through- him?

Hannah:  
I think LV was actually there in person.  He didn't intend to enter 
the Ministry, but once things had gone so badly wrong, with his DE's 
being defeated, he decided to turn up and try to salvage the 
operation.  Note that he didn't realise DD was there, in which case 
he wouldn't have risked it.  But he thought he could get in quickly, 
grab the prophecy (which he didn't know had been destroyed until he 
got there), and kill anyone who got in the way.

LV must have been there, or an image of him there, because Fudge and 
the other Ministry officials *saw* him there, that was how they were 
convinced.  The whole point is that he's seen, at least at the end.  
I don't think he was fighting through Harry except in the bit where 
he actually possessed him.  Harry didn't get the terrible pain in 
his scar until that happened.

Hannah