[HPforGrownups] Re: Possession

[Laura Lynn Walsh]

No: HPFGUIDX 177981


On 2007, Oct 15, , at 08:38, Leianne Steven wrote:

>> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Laura Lynn Walsh <lwalsh@>
>> 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?
>
>
> It is possible that because LV was actually possessing Harry, it  
> was different. If you think about it, LV himself wasn't possessing  
> Ginny, his memory and a piece of soul was.
>
>
> ~*~Leianne~*~
> The Banana Herself!
> 2008 Bride

I would think that if only a piece of VM's soul was possessing
Ginny, that it would be weaker than the actual possession
that Harry experienced when VM possessed him briefly in
OotP.  It is true that the latter experience was extremely short,
but I didn't get the impression that Harry lost a sense of self
or loss of memory.  The fact that he can remember this experience
should have made it obvious to him that there was a different
kind of possession that was possible.

And, when Ginny was being possessed by VM's soul piece,
there were long stretches of time where she WAS conscious
of herself.  Does that mean that the soul piece could flit in and
out of possessing her?  Did she need to be in physical
proximity to the diary in order to be possessed?  If so, that
would be, for VM, a dangerous circumstance.  Just when he
needed her, she might be off taking flying lessons of some
such thing.

And, yes, I do remember Hermione saying that you had to
only be emotionally close, not physically close.  How does
that explain the later possessions?  At that point she had
withdrawn her feelings from the diary - or rather, they had
been transformed from affection to abhorrence.

Laura
-- 
Laura Lynn Walsh    lwalsh at acsalaska.net
http://llwcontemplations.blogspot.com



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