Musings on Dobby,Horcruxes, and MPD!LV Was:Snape and use of "The Dark Lord"

[anne_t_squires]

No: HPFGUIDX 167144

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tandra" <tkjones9 at ...> wrote:
 Small snip:

Snape calls Voldermort The Dark
Lord, every time he references him, and gets mad at Harry for using
his real name. I just find it odd. I mean, everyone else either calls
him "you know who" or by his name (to the dismay of others) It just
makes me raise and eyebrow that Snape seems to reference him in this
kind of reverence. 
> Tandra
>
Anne Squires responds:

FWIW, Dobby also refers to LV as "the Dark Lord".  IIRC, the first
time anyone in the series uses the term, "Dark Lord," it is Dobby in
CoS:  

"Dobby heard tell," he said hoarsely, "that Harry Potter met the Dark
Lord for a second time, just weeks ago.... that Harry Potter escaped


I don't know about the rest of y'all; but, I always thought that
Dobby's supposed clue about who was behind all the trouble in CoS was,
well, very lame.  That is, until I read  HBP.  Remember at the
beginning of CoS, Dobby specifically tells Harry that
He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named is not behind all the "terrible things."

"What terrible things?" said Harry.  "Who's plotting them?"  

Dobby made a funny choking noise and then banged his head frantically
against the wall.  

"All right!" cried Harry, grabbing the elf's arm to stop him.  "You
can't tell me.  I understand.  But why are you warning me?  A sudden,
unpleasant thought struck him.  "Hang on-----this hasn't got anything
to do with Vol --- sorry ---- with You-Know-Who, has it?  You could
just shake or nod," he added hastily as Dobby's head tilted worryingly
close to the wall again.

Slowly, Dobby shook his head.

"Not --- not He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, sir ----"

But Dobby's eyes were wide and he seemed to be giving Harry a hint. 
Harry, however, was completely lost.

"He hasn't got a brother, has he?" (CoS p.20)

Then at the end of the novel Harry tries to get some clarification
about this hint from Dobby.

"I've got just one question, Dobby," said Harry as Dobby pulled on
Harry's sock with shaking hands. "You told me all this had nothing to
do with He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, remember? Well ---"

"It was a clue, sir," said Dobby, his eyes widening, as though this
was obvious.  "Was giving you a clue.  The Dark Lord, before he
changed his name, could be freely named, you see?"

"Right," Said Harry weakly. (CoS P.429)

Like I said earlier, when I first read this I thought it was a cheap
shot on the part of the author.  I was very disappointed at the time
because I greatly admired JKR's style.  But, I kept thinking this
particular "clue" part of the book was just plain stupid. At the time
I was thinking that Harry had guessed correctly and Dobby knew it all
along.  Why play this stupid game with both Harry and the reader?  To
me it felt like a poorly devised red herring.  CoS, imo, has several
clever red herrings.  So, I kept asking myself, why has the author
included this misleading, correctly guessed at, yet denied clue?  I
felt that Harry and the reader had been deliberately lied to.  I even
wondered why this whole exchange hadn't been edited out.  It truly
seemed that weak to me.  A very cheap shot by an otherwise very clever
author.

Later, of course, I realized that He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named really and
truly had nothing whatsoever to do with the plot of CoS.  We have been
told that Lucius Malfoy was behind the whole thing. That LV's anger,
upon hearing about this blotched plot, was great to behold.  One of
his Horcruxes had been sacrificed for nothing.

After reading HBP I completely changed my opinion about this
hint/clue---whatever that JKR is/was trying to give us via Dobby. 
This is the genius of JKR.  She is giving an incredibly clever clue
about LV's essence.  That he is, in fact, divided, split.  There are
different parts to Voldemort, that these different parts come from
different time periods and even have different names.  She has
encapsulated this clue with words like "hint" and "clue."  It's like
she's saying look here for a clue everyone.  Dobby tells Harry, and
us, that here is a clue.  He says it not once, but twice. He widens
his eyes when the clue is introduced and when it is "explained." 
Don't know why I didn't pick up on this before.  Well, on second
thought, I guess I do.  I was too busy feeling used and superior about
what I thought was a stupid "clue" to see that much, much more was
going on. Like foreshadowing for something extremely important. (GAH!
Slaps forehead)

After rereading parts of CoS with HBP in mind I have started to think
that maybe not only Lucius was to blame for CoS.  I think the part of
LV's soul that inhabited the diary was also part of the plot.  That
particular aspect/soul of LV was certainly  a willing participant in
the whole plot. In fact, w/o his cooperation there would not have been
a plot.  I propose that LM and Diary!Tom were co-conspirators. 
Furthermore, I have begun to wonder if the various Horcruxes have
their own separate identities apart from LV.   What I am attempting to
say (and I am trying to be clear, but it is difficult) is that the
Horcruxes together make up a whole being; but these bits of soul have
been apart from their "owner" for a very long time.  I wonder if they
have developed---- or maybe retained---- distinct personalities with
distinct agendas.  I think the fact that the Horcruxes exist means
that LV has a sort of MPD.  I read Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber many
years ago.  It is based on the true story of a young woman who had MPD
(multiple personality disorder).  Some of her personalities didn't
know what others were doing.  Some of them worked against each other.
 Some wanted to kill Sybil and others wanted Sybil to live. They had
different ages, names, personalities, and goals.  LV is angry at
Lucius for CoS.  I wonder if he shouldn't also be angry at that part
of himself (or what used to be a part of himself) that took part in
the whole plot to open the Chamber and go after Harry.  

This leads me to my next observation.  The different Horcruxes with
their own different agendas can and have worked in opposition to each
other.  (LV does not appreciate what Diary!Tom got up to.) I realize I
am making a huge leap here, but here goes---- I also think that there
is a Horcrux in Harry which has helped Harry oppose LV.  This explains
why Harry's instincts seem to always kick in just in time to save him
the times he has confronted LV (or in the case of CoS--- one of LV's
Horcruxes).

SS:  "...Harry, by instinct, reached up and grabbed Quirrell's face---"

CoS:  "Then without thinking, without considering, as though he had
been 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."

GoF:  "Harry didn't understand why he was doing it, didn't know what
it might achieve...but he now concentrated as he had never done in his
life on forcing that bead of light right back into Voldemort's wand..."

The Horcrux in Harry knows just what to do to save himself from, well,
himself. Have you ever played chess with yourself.  You know just what
to do and when to do it to protect yourself from yourself.

Horcrux!Harry also explains why the Dementors are especially drawn to
Harry.  He's got his soul plus a bit extra.

Horcrux!Harry explains why Harry's wand, the brother of LV's, chose Harry.

Horcrux!Harry explains why Harry can withstand the Imperius Curse. 
With an extra bit of soul, Harry has the extra resolve to overcome the
curse.

Above all else, for me, the only thing that explains this bit from CoS
is Horcrux!Harry:

"Harry couldn't explain, even to himself, why he didn't just throw
Riddle's diary away. The fact was that even though he knew the diary
was blank, he kept absentmindedly picking it up and turning the pages,
as though it were a story he wanted to finish.  And while Harry was
sure he had never heard the name T. M. Riddle before, it still seemed
to mean something to him, almost as though Riddle was a friend he'd
had when he was very small, and had half-forgotten. But this was
absurd.  He'd never had friends before Hogwarts, Dudley had made sure
of that." (CoS US paperback p.297)

What other explanation could there be for the above paragraph than
Horcrux!Harry?  Please, this is not a rhetorical question.  What do
you all think of Harry believing he used to be "friends" with T. M.
Riddle?  Why would he think that?  Why does the name mean something to
him?

Anne T. Squires (Who really wants to know what others think of my
MPD!LV theory)