Do you agree? Magical Theory... ( was: ...(Harry as Horcrux))

[doug rogers]

No: HPFGUIDX 164032

bboymin:

> the existance of Magical Theory is
> confirmed. We hear that it exists, even if we don't
> actually get to hear the details of it.

I've heard all shades and subtleties of both sides of this argument.  
They go around and around. But these things remain:

Given that Blood/Body based explanations cannot answer the example of

Annemehr:

> the power of
> possession which Vapor!Mort retained. In the graveyard, he explained
> to his DEs that, while a vapor, he could not weild his other powers
> because he could not hold a wand. And, acutally I would add he could
> not speak Parseltongue because he didn't have a tongue. But Vapor!
> Mort was nothing *but* soul -- albeit an incomplete one -- and he, as
> a mere bit of soul, retained and used the power of possession. Then
> at his rebirth he could once again weild the ones that required a
> body -- i.e., they had remained latent with him during his stint as a
> mere bit of soul, until his reembodiment.

  And that Soul based arguments cannot answer the case of

bboyminn:

> When he explains to Harry that Voldemort has transformed
> and diminished himself by removing bits of his soul, he
> warns Harry that this has not diminished Voldemort's power
> in any way. While Voldemort may have greatly diminished
> his humanitry and conscience, removing those soul bits
> has not diminished Voldemort's magical power.

These are the two unresolvable arguments.

And Rowling does give the reader an example of Magical theory in  
Lupin's explanation of The Patronus.

  Lupin, PoA The Patronus, pg 176, Raincoast edition:

"The Patronus is a kind of positive force, a projection of the very  
things that the Dementor feeds upon - hope, happiness, the desire to  
survive - but it cannot feel despair, as real humans can, so the  
Dementors can't hurt it."

Basically, the happiest thought you can recall is focused and  
magically made manifest as the Patronus. It is propelled as an active  
energy/mass state doing the will of the magician.

Is there another possibility, not-blood, not-soul, that answers both  
of the criticism above, can explain the connection, and respects at  
least a bit, the theoretical model we have in The Patronus?

Mind?


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