Apparate to Possess

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> Kneasy wrote:
> Now to the case in point.
> Voldy would have had more interest in Harry than in just killing 
him.
> We can provide a rationale for that - power.
> Harry has power - not  *will have* power, it's already there, 
inbuilt 
> if the first line of the Prophecy reads correctly. Voldy is very 
> interested in power, he's spent years travelling the world learning 
> stuff until (in his mind) he's a contender for top-spot. And here's 
an 
> untrained sprog with sufficient power to be able to challenge him - 
> once Harry grows up and gets his act together.
> 
> He'd want a look.
> He want to know exactly what this power is (is it quantitative or 
> qualitative?) and if at all possible subsume it. Legilimancy 
wouldn't 
> do it, that reads thoughts not magical capability.
> I doubt he'd be too worried about being knocked off by a 15 month 
old. 
> The  fact that the family was in hiding would offer reassurance 
that 
> the child was not, in and of itself, impervious to Voldy's spells. 
> Unexpected protective charms placed by a third party were something 
> else and he came a cropper.
> 

Neri:
Your argument here is similar to VASSAL, and therefore gets stuck in 
the same place. According to this theory, Voldy did TWO things to 
Harry in GH: First he tried to possess him. When that failed, he 
tried to AK him.

The first problem with this is: if Voldy only possessed Harry to take 
a look inside, and then left, why did he forget a bit of himself 
behind?

The second problem is: if you assume that the scar is a result of the 
AK, and doesn't have any connection with the possession attempt that 
took place before that, then why does Harry's scar hurt during active 
connection with Voldy? This suggests that the scar IS the connection, 
or at least its external manifestation (as DD indeed suggests).

Neri