Soul bits (Was: CHAPDISC: HBP 23, Horcruxes)

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No: HPFGUIDX 160906

> Carol again:
>  IMO, the memory (or
> memories) that Tom placed in the diary are like those we see Snape 
and
> Dumbledore taking from their heads and are separate from the soul bit
> that was encased using a Horcrux-creating spell. If Dumbledore placed
> a memory in a diary, even if he intended that memory to be read and
> shared (like a Pensieve memory or the memory of Tom "catching"
> Hagrid), would that memory be capable of possessing the reader? I
> don't think so.

Actually, they are quite different! The memories that are placed in 
the pensieve that Harry witnesses are just that - memories of the 
events, accounts of them - containing no soul at all. However the 
diary was a Horcrux. It contained not only the memories/accounts of 
the events that Harry witnessed (the 'capture' of Hagrid) but the 
essence of Riddle himself, a fraction of his soul. However it was just 
a fraction of his soul, fragmented and not whole. 

Pg. 310 Am Ed CoS says: "If I say it myself, Harry, I've always been 
able to charm the people I needed. So Ginny poured out her soul to me, 
and her soul happened to be exactly what I wanted...I grew stronger 
and stronger on a diet of her deepest fears, her darkest secrets. I 
grew powerful, far more powerful than little Miss Weasley. Powerful 
enough to start feeding Miss Weasley a few of my secrets, to start 
pouring a little of my soul back into her..."

So, if Riddle's 'memory' had no soul, Riddle wouldn't have been able 
to pour himself into Ginny and possess her.

Jenni from Alabama