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izmeinaMore Potter Plotting
Time is running out for speculation, crystal ball gazing and wild theories. So Izzie is taking advantage of these last few days for some musing and mumblings
Apparently, the question we are all supposed to be asking ourselves is NOT why Harry survived the green light but rather why Voldemort did not die.
From the speech to the Death Eaters that he gave at his rebirthing party, maybe the reason he did not die was because the transformations he underwent in his attempts to conquer death mean that he was no longer truly alive and therefore could not be killed.
"And then I ask myself, but how could they have believed I would not rise again? They, who knew the steps I took, long ago, to guard myself against mortal death? They, who had seen proofs of the immensity of my power in the times when I was mightier than any wizard living?
"I miscalculated, my friends, I admit it. My curse was deflected by the woman's foolish sacrifice, and it rebounded upon myself. Aaah …pain beyond pain, my friends; nothing could have prepared me for it. I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost…but still, I was alive. What I was, even I do not know… I, who have gone further than anybody along the path that leads to immortality. You know my goal - to conquer death. And now, I was tested, and it appeared that one or more of my experiments had worked … for I had not been killed, though the curse should have done it. Nevertheless, I was as powerless as the weakest creature alive, and without the means to help myself… for I had no body, and every spell that might have helped me required the use of a wand…
Did not - like some die hard fans - read all the books once again in anticipation of the latest but decided to stick to the most recent and the one tipped to be the most significant - Chamber of Secrets.
The very first time Izzie read “The Chamber of Secrets” was struck by a certain passage which seemed strangely reminiscent of other incidents in the first book – various dreams concerning motorbikes, turbans and green lights and the feeling Harry had of having read Nicholas Flamel's name somewhere before. And they were all written in such a way as to try make the reader forget about them. (Those evil reptilian hypnotic powers ;))
Reading it recently, once again it stood out as being rather peculiar and most mysterious indeed.
"Harry couldn't explain, even to himself, why he didn't just throw Riddle's diary away. The fact was that even though he knew the diary was blank, he kept absentmindedly picking it up and turning the pages, as though it were a story he wanted to finish. And while Harry was sure he had never heard the name T. M. Riddle before, it still seemed to mean something to him, almost as though Riddle was a friend he'd had when he was very small, and had half-forgotten. But this was absurd. He'd never had friends before Hogwarts, Dudley had made sure of that."
So when some one else not only noticed this particular passage but came up with an explanation for it, Izzie was most intrigued indeed.
Their theory is that when Voldemort's spell backfired, not only did he slink off in spirit form but left a piece of his mind with Harry and his scar marks the place where it is lurking – the Mark of Cain in its own peculiar way.
This would explain the nasty little voice in Harry's head which is like a conscience gone bad. If Tom Riddle can preserve a version of himself in a book, or can take over the minds of others, then there is no reason why he cannot stake a claim in Harry's brain. (Sort of like that Stephen King novel - “The Dark Half”)
There's a whole pile of stuff in this theory concerning the prophecy which Izzie cannot make any sense of – the whole prophecy business is guaranteed to get Izzie's eyes all glazed over. But such a theory offers an interesting explanation for Dumbledore's observations concerning his strange silver whistling gadgets.
"'Naturally, naturally,' murmured Dumbledore apparently to himself, still observing the stream of smoke without the slightest sign of surprise. 'But in essence divided?' Harry could make neither head nor tail of this question. The smoke serpent, however, split itself instantly into two snakes, both coiling and undulating in the dark air." - [OotP]
The theory gives this explanation
“Dumbledore is talking about the essence of Voldemort, Voldemort's mind. The snakes represent the separate parts of Voldemort's mind, which share a bond but at the same time have been living completely separate lives for the past fifteen years. One part trapped inside Harry watching him grow up, the other forced to go into exile waiting for his followers to finally come looking for him.”
Izzie cannot yet think of any evidence to disprove this theory of mind sharing and is curious to know what anyone else can find.
In Essence Divided
Time is running out for speculation, crystal ball gazing and wild theories. So Izzie is taking advantage of these last few days for some musing and mumblings
Apparently, the question we are all supposed to be asking ourselves is NOT why Harry survived the green light but rather why Voldemort did not die.
From the speech to the Death Eaters that he gave at his rebirthing party, maybe the reason he did not die was because the transformations he underwent in his attempts to conquer death mean that he was no longer truly alive and therefore could not be killed.
"And then I ask myself, but how could they have believed I would not rise again? They, who knew the steps I took, long ago, to guard myself against mortal death? They, who had seen proofs of the immensity of my power in the times when I was mightier than any wizard living?
"I miscalculated, my friends, I admit it. My curse was deflected by the woman's foolish sacrifice, and it rebounded upon myself. Aaah …pain beyond pain, my friends; nothing could have prepared me for it. I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost…but still, I was alive. What I was, even I do not know… I, who have gone further than anybody along the path that leads to immortality. You know my goal - to conquer death. And now, I was tested, and it appeared that one or more of my experiments had worked … for I had not been killed, though the curse should have done it. Nevertheless, I was as powerless as the weakest creature alive, and without the means to help myself… for I had no body, and every spell that might have helped me required the use of a wand…
Did not - like some die hard fans - read all the books once again in anticipation of the latest but decided to stick to the most recent and the one tipped to be the most significant - Chamber of Secrets.
The very first time Izzie read “The Chamber of Secrets” was struck by a certain passage which seemed strangely reminiscent of other incidents in the first book – various dreams concerning motorbikes, turbans and green lights and the feeling Harry had of having read Nicholas Flamel's name somewhere before. And they were all written in such a way as to try make the reader forget about them. (Those evil reptilian hypnotic powers ;))
Reading it recently, once again it stood out as being rather peculiar and most mysterious indeed.
"Harry couldn't explain, even to himself, why he didn't just throw Riddle's diary away. The fact was that even though he knew the diary was blank, he kept absentmindedly picking it up and turning the pages, as though it were a story he wanted to finish. And while Harry was sure he had never heard the name T. M. Riddle before, it still seemed to mean something to him, almost as though Riddle was a friend he'd had when he was very small, and had half-forgotten. But this was absurd. He'd never had friends before Hogwarts, Dudley had made sure of that."
So when some one else not only noticed this particular passage but came up with an explanation for it, Izzie was most intrigued indeed.
Their theory is that when Voldemort's spell backfired, not only did he slink off in spirit form but left a piece of his mind with Harry and his scar marks the place where it is lurking – the Mark of Cain in its own peculiar way.
This would explain the nasty little voice in Harry's head which is like a conscience gone bad. If Tom Riddle can preserve a version of himself in a book, or can take over the minds of others, then there is no reason why he cannot stake a claim in Harry's brain. (Sort of like that Stephen King novel - “The Dark Half”)
There's a whole pile of stuff in this theory concerning the prophecy which Izzie cannot make any sense of – the whole prophecy business is guaranteed to get Izzie's eyes all glazed over. But such a theory offers an interesting explanation for Dumbledore's observations concerning his strange silver whistling gadgets.
"'Naturally, naturally,' murmured Dumbledore apparently to himself, still observing the stream of smoke without the slightest sign of surprise. 'But in essence divided?' Harry could make neither head nor tail of this question. The smoke serpent, however, split itself instantly into two snakes, both coiling and undulating in the dark air." - [OotP]
The theory gives this explanation
“Dumbledore is talking about the essence of Voldemort, Voldemort's mind. The snakes represent the separate parts of Voldemort's mind, which share a bond but at the same time have been living completely separate lives for the past fifteen years. One part trapped inside Harry watching him grow up, the other forced to go into exile waiting for his followers to finally come looking for him.”
Izzie cannot yet think of any evidence to disprove this theory of mind sharing and is curious to know what anyone else can find.
In Essence Divided
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Date: 2005-07-01 05:21 pm (UTC)....because you can't only kill one part of yourself. If part of Voldie is in Harry, then both bits must die to completely die....