Baby in King's Cross chapter of HP7

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 175131

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Valerie " <valeriejeanne at ...> wrote:
>
> I wondered if anyone had thoughts about that baby in the "King's
> Cross" chapter? The one that's crying, but Harry feels repulsed by
> it...Was that supposed to represent the Voldemort part of Harry that
> had been removed from him by Voldemort's attack on Harry?

Geoff:
Someone wrote quite recently that they thought that it was Voldemort going 
through a similar experience to Harry in King's Cross.

It hadn't occurred to me at that point but there seems to be canon evidence 
that Voldemort also collapsed at the same time as Harry at the end of "The 
Forest Again".

Look at the start of "The Flaw in the Plan":

'He (Harry) had expected to hear cheers of triumph and jubilation at his 
death but instead, hurried footsteps, whispers and solicitous murmurs 
filled the air.
"My Lord... my Lord...."

...Desperate to see what was happening, and why, Harry opened his eyes 
by a millimetre. Voldemort appeared to be getting to his feet....

...Harry closed his eyes again and considered what he had seen. The Death 
Eaters had been huddled round Voldemort, who seemed to have fallen to 
the ground. Something had happened whe he had hit Harry with the Killing 
Curse. Had Voldemort, too, collapsed? It seemd like it. And both of them 
had fallen briefly unconscious and both of them had now returned...'
(DH "The Flaw in the Plan" from pp.580/81 UK edition)

I now believe that the child is the form that Voldemort will take after death 
because of the damage he inflicted on himself by creating Horcruxes and 
when Harry asks "What is that, Professor?" Dumbledore replies "Something 
that is beyond eiher of our help" which seems to confirm this.
(DH "King's Cross" p.567 UK edition)