Possession

[Tiffany B. Clark]

No: HPFGUIDX 177975

Laura:

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?

Tiffany:

I know that LV didn't actually gain full possession of Ginny, but his 
memory & soul did.  He had a crumb of his crust, so to speak, to get 
into Ginny, but he didn't get actual physical possesion in the classic 
sense.  I know in OotP, he had possession of Harry, but it was very 
brief & LV wasn't in charge for too long.  There's a lot of forms of 
possession, but don't know them all off hand & Harry could've been 
denying them because he wanted to clear his thoughts & memories of it.  
Harry could also just be skeptical of the possession experience & 
wishing to dismiss it as acting out his element.