A "bit" of Voldemort

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 170336

I mentioned earlier that the phrase "a bit of himself" is not
Dumbledore's but Harry's and that the context suggest suggests powers,
not soul bits, which can only be read into the passage in hindsight;
they aren't mentioned in CoS. 

But in rereading CoS, I noticed that the concept of a "bit" of someone
does come up in relation to the *physical* self. Hermione tells Harry
and Ron that one of the ingredients of the Polyjuice Potion is "a bit
of whoever we want to change into." Ron reacts with, "Excuse me? What
d'you mean, a bit of whoever we're changing into?  I'm drinking 
*nothing* with Crabbe's toenails in it" (CoS Am. ed. 163). The "bits"
turn out to be hairs, but they're still a physical part of the person.

This use of the word "bit" with reference to part of a person isn't
proof, of course, that some physical "bit" of Voldemort, as opposed to
the not-yet introduced soul bit, is what Dumbledore concedes *may*
have entered Harry to give him Voldemort's powers, but if Voldie's
body exploded, a "bit" of his flesh and (magical) blood could have
entered the cut on Harry's forehead as easily, and perhaps more
easily, than a nontangible soul bit could have done. Or the powers
could have entered Harry by some other as yet unknown mechanism, but I
think they entered via the cut that would become the scar since it
serves as Harry's link to Voldemort.

Carol, wondering if JKR was already looking forward to Harry's using
the HBP's toenail hex on Crabbe when she wrote Ron's lines about
Crabbe's toenails