My Theory On The Prophecy/ Love Potion Child

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 153308

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ejom723" <ejom723 at ...> wrote:
>
> What if when LV attacked baby Harry, he not only transferred some 
of his powers into Harry (parseltongue, Slytherin traits), but also 
transferred a part of Harry into himself (LV)?  I'm thinking that 
maybe LV acccidently without his awareness made himself HARRY'S 
Horcrux! 

Tonks:
Well, this is the weekend and I have it off plus Monday, per the 
Ministry's Owl message passed on by Ceridwen. But before I take off 
for a few days at Scrimgeour's beach house(in a secret, unplotable 
location, of course.)(with Lupin <g>) I will just say that I have 
pondered this idea. But not that LV is a Horcrux himself. I don't 
think the word would be Horcrux either, because that is very dark 
magic. But I have wondered if it is possible for someone's soul to 
enter another person in a positive way, such as when they sacrifice 
their life for you. 

I know that some have suggested that some part of Lily is in Harry, 
and I am not a big fan of that theory. But I have wondered if 
killing splits your soul, is there something that makes you whole 
and also imparts something (????) to another person.  If killing is 
the evil way, what is the opposite of that which would do the 
opposite of a Horcrux?  I know these ideas have been brought up 
before, but I don't remember anything coming of them. It does make 
sense that we need an opposite. A Ying for our Yang, so to speak. 
But what??  It may be tied in to an idea similar to that of the Holy 
Spirit coming into a person because of the sacrificial Love of 
Christ, but that is as far as I have gotten with this. The spirit of 
DD or Fawkes maybe residing in Harry to help guide and protect him? 
And now we are back to the spirit of Lily possibly being in 
Harry. ??? 

As I think on this a bit more, I don't think that it will be 
the "soul" of the other, but maybe somehow the giving of ones life 
enlarges your soul in someway and the overflowing 'spirit' which is 
different than 'soul' is what goes into the person who was saved by 
the act.

Megan said:
What if the evil of Tom Jr stems from the result of his "unnatural"
birth? Could the love potion that flowed through Tom Sr's veins have 
an adverse effect on his ability to love? (Snip) Could the
Love Potion (false love) have been a catalyst in the Evil of
Voldemort?

Tonks:
As to this idea, I have thought about the differences between Harry 
and Tom starting with Harry being conceived in Love and Tom 
conceived in deceit. I have not thought about the idea of the 
conception of a child conceived through an unnatural love as the 
conception of a child without the capacity to love. But this is an 
interesting idea and gives us something to think about especially 
now that Harry's blood is in LV. LV now has some of Lily's blood in 
him. He has in some fashion "love" in his blood. Exactly how this 
will play out remains a mystery to me. But it may be the reason for 
DD's twinkle. 

I have often thought that DD longed to see Tom redeemed, and may not 
have totally given up on him. Maybe DD knows something about the ill 
effects of love poition on the child of such a union. I wonder if 
this 'birth defect' could have been overcome if Tom had been loved 
by someone. He has never been loved and has never loved. He was not 
evil at birth, JKR has said that "no one is born evil". But poor Tom 
did not get off to a good start. I have often said that it is "we" 
who have made LV. That is to say when we turn our back on the 
orphan, the innocent and suffering, as a society and as 
individuals "we" are collectively responsible for the evil that has 
come into the world this time by the name of LV.  When he is 
destroyed, if we do not learn from this, another will rise in his 
place. And on and on. 

Well that is all for now. Carry on...

Tonks_op
(packing suntan lotion, sunglasses, some of elf-tested Rosmerta's 
wine
 ;-) see you all later!)