Harry's power of Possession as alternative to Harry!crux (Was: Baby!Mort)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 148697

Krista wrote:
> Apologies if someone else has suggested this before, but what if we
needed to be aware of Diaper!Mort before, so that Harry can then send
him back to baby-stage during the Final Confrontation, winning by
incapacitating Voldie?
> 
> I'm not sure how I feel about a stunted Voldie (vs. a safely dead
one), but it would at least save Harry from the soul-tearing of murder. 

Carol responds:

Diaper!Mort! I love it.

I agree that there must be a way to "save Harry from the soul-tearing
of murder" (as well as the need to cast an Unforgiveable Curse), and I
don't think returning Voldie to baby form would do that. We'd simply
have Tom Riddle all over again when this baby grew up and Harry would
simply be postponing his defeat rather than bringing it about once and
for all.

Nor, IMO, does the Harry!crux theory provide a satisfactory means of
saving Harry from the need to commit murder. Aside from being
repellant, at least to me, it's illogical. The Horcruxes have to be
destroyed before Harry can destroy the physical Voldemort. But if
Harry sacrifices himself to destroy the Horcrux inside him, he can't
destroy Voldemort because he, Harry, is dead. (I won't get into the
arguments about the improbability of creating an accidental Horcrux,
but the whole theory is full of holes.)

There is, however, another way to destroy DD without committing
murder. If what Harry acquired at GH was, as DD says, "powers" rather
than a soul bit, one of the powers is quite likely to be that of
possession (one of LV's own rare powers that would make Harry uniquely
qualified to defeat him).

We've seen the unbearable pain that Harry felt when LV possessed him,
along with the wish to die. We've seen the unbearable pain that LV
felt as the result of Harry's love for his murdered godfather, which
saved Harry from that possession. Reverse the situation, with Harry
possessing Voldemort and filling him with the hated and unbearably
painful power of Love, and *Voldemort* would wish to die. All we need
is for the Veil to be nearby so that Voldy leaps through the Veil, and
a way for Harry to return (possibly using Sirius's body, which would
then be returned to the living world for burial), allowing Harry to
repossess his own body and live a normal life. Or at least to "live"
rather than "survive," as he's been doing up to this point.

Less complicated than Harry!crux and requiring a lot less exposition,
foreshadowed since CoS (unlike the Horcruxes, since we had an
alternative explanation for the diary), and enabling Harry to use the
power of Love to defeat LV rather than murdering him.

Carol, who has argued this theory more fully in other posts but is
trying to be concise here