101 "most" important remaining questions: pt. 1 of 101!

[Peter J. Wagner]

No: HPFGUIDX 166919

Carol:
> That leaves us with a and e. Canon suggests that the AK that failed
> connected Harry with Voldemort and gave him some of Voldemort's
> powers. Note that once he regained a body, Voldemort still retained
> his full powers, despite having split off at least four parts of his
> soul through the creation of four previous Horcruxes. That suggests to
> me that powers do not reside in soul bits. If they did, Voldie's
> powers would be severely diminished. So the powers Harry acquired,
> including the link to Voldie, seem to relate to the spell Voldie cast
> (IMO, cast out of him by his mother's blood protection) but *not* to a
> soul bit. So I suppose that qualifies as part a, part e. IMO, any
> "bit" or "part" of Voldie that's in Harry is not a soul fragment, nor
> is Harry a Horcrux.

Peter:
Just to clarify for future respondents, in this case, the response
is a, not a or e.  Note that this question does NOT specify which
bit of Voldemort it is!  It could be soul, it could be
his big toe-nail!  Thus, Carol chose a bit of Voldemort.

The issue of what the bit of Voldemort is the next question!

There is no canon for c or d, or b for that matter.  (We have
no indication that Protean charms do anything other than
modify shapes from afar.)  However, these all are hypotheses
that Harry Potter fans have generated.  Therefore, we included
these alternatives.  Indeed, the fact that there are Protean charms
and souls in Potterverse makes these hypotheses much better
entrenched in the canon than many ideas!

Oh, and just for clarification: Voldemort states that he settled
for his own body.  Yes, it is "new," but, hey, this is magic.  He
also states that he could not restore himself because he
needed a wand to do that, and as Vapourmort, he could
not use one.  Given what happens, Voldemort's loss of his
powers came from losing his ability to access most of them: he
could still do magical things like possess, break memory charms
and speak Parseltongue, but he could not do things requiring
a wand.  Think of it as having a bank account full of money but
having no ATM card or identification: yes, you still have the
money, but until you find a way to access it, you have effectively
lost it.