The Gleam, The Blood, and TM Riddle (Long)

[rebecca]

No: HPFGUIDX 153541

I started this effort researching the whole "Harry's got Lily's eyes and
what does THAT mean?" question, but I keep getting drawn back to the gleam
in Dumbledore's eye at His Dark Lordshipness taking and using Harry's blood
for his rebirthing in GoF.  Note to all who read:  this is only what I think
is the case.  Feel more than free to have your own view and share, will you,
please?

I'm asking myself "how thick could you get?" in relation to why Voldemort
would do what he did after reading all that I could about ancient blood
rituals.  Ancient beliefs about blood were remarkably similiar to what
Voldemort did in taking Harry's blood for his rebirthing - the practice of
using the strength of your enemy's blood to sustain and empower yourself is
rampant through ancient times. It is believed the same substance can cleanse
or defile, drive men to fury and murder or appease anger and restore life.
IMO, Voldemort's got a problem and a big one: if any of the above is true,
he's now got some, well..... shall we say, "issues."  Let's discuss...

In ancient times, it was believed that you had to extremely careful about
taking enemy blood for yourself , because the following could be true:

-  The enemy's soul, life experiences, personality or a combination of all
three were in the blood
-  You acquired not only the strengths, but could acquire the weaknesses of
your opponent, too
-  Drinking or using your enemy's blood constitued a "bond" between you and
the person from whom you took the blood.
-  Just because you killed your opponent and bested him doesn't mean that if
you take his blood for your own purposes, that your enemy couldn't best you
in the end from *within you.*

Now, on to the guesswork. Trays in the upright position......exits to the
left and right....

First, as Dumbledore says, Voldemort's use of Harry's blood now allows him
to overcome the "particular hurdle" of touching Harry without harm to
himself. Protection there nullified, however isn't there more to Harry's
blood than just the bond of blood protection by his mother's sacrifice?
(Note: Dumbledore says "particular hurdle" which can mean he's implying
there's more than one for Voldemort associated with Harry's blood.) If Harry
really has a piece of T.M. Riddle in his head, then Voldemort's use of
Harry's blood might just even that score, too. How?

Seatbelts tightened, please.

Harry is repeatedly told, by Dumbledore, how unusual and unique he is with
all he's endured, specifically that Harry's soul is "untarnished and whole"
whereas Voldemort's is not:

"You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!" said Dumbledore
loudly. "The only protection that can possibly work against the lure of
power like Voldemort's! In spite of all the temptation you have endured, all
the suffering, you remain pure of heart, just as pure as you were at the age
of eleven, when you stared into a mirror that reflected your heart's
desire, and it showed you only the way to thwart Lord Voldemort, and not
immortality or riches." (HBP)

Note this from SS/PS about the blood protection:

"Not a scar, no visible sign... to have been loved so deeply, even though
the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever. It is
in your very skin."

And this from Dumbledore in the Ministry of Magic (OoP) during his battle
with Voldemort:

'We both know that there are other ways of destroying a man, Tom."

What better way to destroy a man than from within his very self? IMO,  the
blood Voldemort took from Harry now acts as a permanent medium to introduce
all those "weaknesses" Lord Voldemort perceives Harry as having: love,
friendship, trust, a complete and untarnished soul along with the protection
of a mother, which we know the Dark Lord never had.

Maybe Voldemort can deploy Occulmency against Harry all day long to avoid
Harry having access to his thoughts, but it may be another story for the
Dark Lord when he's being peppered with doubts, emotion or confusion from
within and perhaps he can't control it as much as he'd like to. Remember,
Harry is described by Dumbledore as being "pure of heart' which one can
infer means that his blood is pure in this way, too. Those "feelings" or
thoughts might not be blocked by Occlumency (which Dumbledore believes that
Voldemort is using against Harry at the beginning of HBP) because perhaps
they come from *Voldemort's skin*, just as Harry's protection is in
his skin.  And look out, time might make that worse and take the edge off
Voldemort's somewhat considerable power.  He certainly didn't risk a second
turn at Dumbledore himself after OoP, preferring instead to plot, plan and
scheme and keep his Dark Butt out of the fray.

What was the rebirthing other than a potion/spell combination? And who do we
know who is proficient at potions and spells? I think someone is going to
give Harry the "clue" about using Voldemort's mistake to his advantage (and
I think it was a HUGE error on Voldemort's part - one Wormtail tried
inadvertently to avoid  for him.) . By using Harry's blood for his
restoration, Voldemort left the door open for several situations to occur,
however one I am specifically drawn to is putting into play what's perhaps
in Harry, allowing it to spring into action.  You know, that mysterious
piece of one T.M. Riddle which Harry thought he couldn't possibly have known
as a friend as a younger child, even though the name was familiar to him in
that manner.

T.M Riddle might help Harry through Book 7 and the Horcux hunt; here's what
I perceive as T.M Riddle's influencing Harry to understand innately how to
destroy the diary horcrux:

"Then, without thinking, without considering, as though he had meant to do
it all along, Harry seized the basilisk fang on the floor next to him and
plunged it straight into the heart of the book."

And this interesting description of how Harry reacted after destroying the
diary:

"Shaking all over, Harry pulled himself up. His head was spinning as though
he'd just traveled miles by Floo powder."

There's also the mention of Harry's ability to throw off the Imperius curse
in GoF - who is the little voice in Harry's head? The same voice also
appears to encourage Harry in PoA to kill Sirius when he has the chance.
Now, let's travel to the emotion Harry feels at an Easter egg Ginny gives
him from Mrs. Weasley in OoP:

"She handed him a handsome chocolate egg decorated with small, iced Snitches
and, according to the packaging, containing a bag of Fizzing Whizzbees.
Harry looked at it for a moment, then, to his horror, felt a lump rise in
his throat.

'Are you OK, Harry?' Ginny asked quietly.

'Yeah, I'm fine,' said Harry gruffly. The lump in his throat was painful. He
did not understand why an Easter egg should have made him feel like this"

I suspect that T.M. Riddle, if he's there in Harry, knows now concepts like
love, sacrifice, friendship, honor, trust, tolerance, and kindness really
*do* exist. He's had Harry's untarnished and complete soul as an example.
Give that part back to Voldemort while he's in a skin which was partly
produced and perhaps influenced by Harry's blood - well, there may be a
result astonishing to behold.

For Voldemort, such an event may result in knowledge, which begets truth,
and with truth, self realization and reality. A life well lived is truly
better than a life not lived to the fullest at all and that, my friends, is
not something I  think any of us want to have at the point of death.

Rebecca, who is glad to get this out of *her* head, thank you very much