Stupid question about Horscrux!Harry

[Lyn J. Mangiameli]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "nkafkafi" <nkafkafi at y...> wrote:
Big snip
> I'd imagine Voldy thought Hx!
> Lily would be Imperio'ed, guarded by his loyal servant, and probably 
> also controlled by his soul in a similar way that Ginny was 
> controlled by the Diary Hx. In fact, after we very nearly had Hx!
> Ginny, a Hx!Lily plan would be the most natural thing.
> 
Lyn now:
But we didn't nearly have a HX Ginny, what we almost had was a dead Ginny, drained of 
her life force, to recorporialize a soul fragment which had already begun that process. 

>From the GUT of HX I am working on:

Now part of what diary Riddle describes for us is himself as an intelligent, volitional entity 
that could write back to Ginny with feigned sympathy and kindness. Now comes a very 
significant statement from diary Riddle
"So Ginny poured out her soul to me, and her soul happened to be be exactly what I 
wanted. . . . I grew stronger and stronger on a diet of her deepest fears, her darkest 
secrets, I grew powerful, far more powerful than little Miss Weasley. Powerful enough to 
start feeding Miss Weasley a few of my secrets, to start pouring a little of my soul back 
into her. . . " 

Now I wonder if JKR was careful enough in her wording, in this passage, particularly in 
light of her later identification of this diary as a HX. I don't believe it was really Ginny 
pouring out her soul directly, so much as by sharing inner thoughts and feelings, she 
began to give up her life force with Riddle –"Percy keeps telling me I'm pale and not 
myself"—but Riddle was correct in that he was using his soul to begin to take over and 
control Ginny.  And I think this interpretation is confirmed in diary Riddle's later 
statement, ""But there isn't much life left in her. . . . . She put too much into the diary, into 
me. Enough to let me leave its pages at last." And again a bit later ""the more life was 
dwindling out of Ginny . . . Riddle's outline was becoming clearer, more solid
."