FAQ poll answered... (with spoilers for said FAQ poll)

[Lyn J. Mangiameli]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Barry Arrowsmith" <arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
> --- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "nrenka" <nrenka at y...> wrote:
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> 
> "Kibosh on other ideas" - Possession Theory you mean?
> I can't agree. The idea is - a stroll through Harry's mind picking up anything
> useful, then the quiet surcease. SFAIK you can't read the mind of a corpse.
> If he wanted to learn of 'the power' he needed a live body.
> 
> Besides, in our world murder can arrive in the guise of the poisoned chalice, 
> the strangling cord, the bullet, the blunt instrument. 
> AK is the equivalent of the bullet.
> IMO it demonstrates limited thinking to believe that an AK is the sole snuffer
> of life's fluttering flame in the WW. 
> 
> Kneasy

Now Lyn

Again, I am with Kneasy on this. I see nothing in the Rowling discussion that takes away 
from possession theory, as explicated by Kneasy. 

It seems to me that Rowling has set up a spectrum of intrusion into another's being: 
Legilimancy, Possession, and the Soul Sucking of the Dementors. Now we have this 
"magical window into Voldemort's mind."  This status strikes me, at a minimum, as 
somewhere between Legilimancy and Possession, and does not at all preclude the latter.   

It still strikes me as passingly strange that such a "window" would arise from a death 
curse, as opposed to an attempt to possess (or something a bit more). As Kneasy alludes, 
if Voldemort's intent was to first explore and then remove Harry's powers,perhaps even 
soul, then it may well be a death of sorts, and of course, nothing about a possession 
necessarily precludes it being so total as to cause death.