Possession by Moldievort

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 177961

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Laura Lynn Walsh <lwalsh at ...> 
wrote:

> In HBP and earlier books, too, Harry and Ginny both
> seem to think that when VM possesses you, you lose
> all remembrance of self and what you are doing.  But
> when VM possessed Harry in OotP, Harry did NOT
> lose awareness.  In fact, he was quite aware and in
> excruciating pain.  Why does Harry continue to assert
> that possession = forgetting what you are doing?  Are
> there different forms of possession?  Is Harry in denial
> of other possible forms of possession?


I always thought that LV possessed Harry in OotP differently than he 
(his Horcrux) possessed Ginny. I don't know if I understand it 
correctly, but it seems to me that at the ministry LV not only 
penetrated Harry's mind, but became one with him, body and soul.

 I don't know how this is possible, but, as it is described in the 
book, LV disappeared from the Atrium, and Harry felt that "he was 
locked in the coils of a creature with red eyes, so tightly bound 
that Harry did not know where his body ended and the creature's 
began. They were fused together ..." etc. (p.815-816, Am.ed.)

The locket/Horcrux doesn't have a body to possess Harry this way, so 
he assumes that if it tried to possess him , it would be "the other 
way" - the way Ginny was possessed. Harry is not in denial, he just 
experienced one type of possession, and he knows how the other type 
must feel, so he knows that he is not possessed, because both types 
are easy to notice :-). JMO.


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