Inferi and Harry

[bauercandace]

No: HPFGUIDX 159927

Hello, all, I've been thinking quite a bit about Harry and Inferi.
We know that Voldemort has used Inferi (dead bodies bewitched to do
one's bidding) in the past, and that there is the possibility that
he may call upon this army again.

My thoughts are this: there is a very good chance that if Voldemort
begins using Inferi in this 'war', Harry will have to face the
bodies of people he has loved, namely Lily, James, Sirius, etc. It
seems to me that Voldemort would have quite a bit to gain in using
these people to fight Harry, as it would obviously shake him,
perhaps to the point of not being able to overcome it.

No where does it say that the body used has to be that of a person
who was on the dark side to begin with.  In fact, during Snape's
DADA lesson in book 6, they spend the time to go over the
differences between ghosts and inferi: ghosts being the 'spirit' of
the person who had died, and inferi being simply the spent bodies,
bewitched to do a Dark Wizard's bidding.  In other words, the inferi
have nothing left of the actual person or soul, they are merely a
thing at that point.

This said, is it impossible that we might see an inferi that we also
have a ghost of? For example, Nearly Headless Nick or someone else
who has died in the past that we haven't seen a ghost of as yet? If
the two things are completely seperate, why could we not have both?
How confusing could things get then?

Just a thought.

bauercandace