Did Harry Notice?
Carol
justcarol67 at yahoo.com
Tue May 13 02:19:40 UTC 2008
No: HPFGUIDX 182875
Steve wrote:
> <snip> Previously, Voldemort could inject thoughts and ideas into
Harry mind, but we don't know that he had the same type or extent of
connection that Harry has with him. Note the only time Voldemort
substantially inhabits Harry's mind is when Voldemort possesses Harry
at the Ministry of Magic. He seems to have access to Harry's thoughts
in that moment, but it is a very unique and special case.
>
> So, while I can't say it is impossible, I think it unlikely that in
that moment, Voldemort was seeing through or into Harry's mind.
Carp; responds:
I only postulated it as a possibility, one that seems at least as
plausible as Voldemort temporarily feeling that "he was the boy"
because he can sense the soulbit entering Harry without realizing
what's happening. He certainly has no such connection with his
deliberately created Horcruxes.
In any case, there's at least one other instance of Voldemort knowing
Harry's thoughts. He's not yet at the MoM, but he somehow knows that
Harry is telling Bellatrix that the Prophecy (orb) has been destroyed
and that Harry isn't lying. And he instantly arrives faster than if
he'd been summoned by someone's Dark Mark.
I do agree that he's in and out of the past and the present and that
Harry is (near the end of the scene) in and out of Voldemort's mind,
starting to wake to his own present condition but also aware of
Voldemort's present situation (with the snake at Bathilda's house
having narrowly missed laying hands on "the boy" again). And, as I
also said, it's seeing the photograph of the golden-haired thief that
pulls him into the present and makes him forget everything else--a
parallel, maybe, to Harry's own focus later in the chapter on his own
broken wand.
Carol, wishing that Voldemort had taken out his rage at losing Harry
by killing Nagini and had never laid eyes on that photograph
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