A "bit" of Voldemort

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 170338

---  "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
>
> 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. 
> 

bboyminn:

Not quite, in their conversation, by way of a warning,
Dumbledore makes it clear that Voldemort's power and
his soul are separate things. Dumbledore says something
to the effect that despite Voldemort having shredded
his soul, his magical power is still in tact and 
very formidable; not a direct quote of course, but in 
essence that is what Dumbledore says. 

My point is, of course, that Voldemort's magical
powers do not seem to be tied to his soul bits. His
power has not diminished as each soul-bit is lost
from the core-soul. The only thing the transfer of
soul serves in the /concept/ of Horcruxes, but I
really don't see it serving the story as it's been
present in the past or as it is likely to be presented
in the future. JMHO.

So, if a bit of Voldemort's soul was transferred to 
Harry, which I have a real problem with, it was 
independent of and mostly unrelated to the transfer of
Voldemort's powers and the unique scar connection. Or
perhaps it is unrelated to the transfer of powers, but
is (maybe) related to the scar connection.

I think I tend to agree with the other poster who put
the odds of a piece of Voldemort's soul being 
transferred at about 20%. Because the idea has some
merit in established concepts, I can't discount it
completely, but the theory also takes great leaps
of speculation to make it work.

I'm not really contradicting anything you said, just
hoping to expand on the soul/power 'bit'.

As to you idea that some physical bit of Voldemort 
entered Harry, say a drop of blood through his scar 
wound, that is an interesting and novel concept that
I haven't heard before. That could certainly have so
real merit.

For what it's worth.

Steve/bboyminn