It’s been speculated that DD has removed his memory of the "why trust Snape" and kept it locked up for safekeeping, therefore he answers Harry the only way he can. Other reasons he’d keep it locked up run the gamut, including such possibilities as Snape and Dumbledore being related. (Ooo, snuck that one in on you all, speculation of course.)
However, I think the "why trust Snape thing" has more to do with Snape feeling his actions provoked Harry as being the orphan left behind. Personally, I think JKR gave major hints in CoS about Harry’s acquisition of Lord Voldemort’s soul inadvertently as opposed to the possession Ginny almost experienced. I don’t think I can ignore these things and not come to the conclusion that like it or not, Harry’s probably got a bit of Dark Lord soul or something in him. But I could be wrong and there’s hope so read on...
So here’s the twist: what if a part of Harry made it into Lord Voldemort that fateful night in GH before all of this happened? I mean, sure, we know some portion according to DD of Voldemort Harry acquired, but really, no one has ever asked if or what Lord Voldemort acquired something from Harry? All we hear is what happened to Harry and what he got; other than Voldemort being stripped of his powers, wouldn’t it stand to reason he might have gotten something from Harry in return? LV’s words:
"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... "
Dumbledore says in OoP that Voldemort couldn’t possess Harry without enduring "mortal agony" to himself. Sound familiar with the above passage? One could speculate that Harry doesn’t feel any pain when unwittingly inside Voldemort’s head early on in GoF because *he’s already there.* I also keep coming back to the blood Harry unwillingingly gave Voldemort that night in the graveyard:
"My father’s bone, naturally, meant that we would have to come here, where he was buried. But the blood of a foe ... Wormtail would have had me use any wizard, would you not, Wormtail? Any wizard who had hated me ... as so many of them still do. But I knew the one I must use, if I was to rise again, more powerful than I had been when I had fallen. I wanted Harry Potter’s blood. I wanted the blood of the one who had stripped me of power thirteen years ago . . . for the lingering protection his mother once gave him would then reside in my veins too."
So very interesting, this passage. Other than "why would Voldemort the Omnipotent want/need protection?’, we can also speculate that with Harry’s abilities to be inside Voldemort’s head unscathed when the mere Dark Lord’s possession of Harry in OoP leaves Voldemort in agony..... well, something is amiss, isn’t it? And remember, Harry could see inside the Dark Lord’s head before the graveyard and the taking of his blood for Voldemort’s rebirthing.
Where’s the blood come in? Blood itself is long believed to be a strong, religiously or magically powerful thing, even symbolic of the soul throughout the ages. Way back when, soldiers believed (as LV does) that to take the blood of an enemy into yourself meant that you acquired the power of the foe you defeated - however, they also cautioned each other that you could also get the foe’s weaknesses, too. Harry’s fear as defined in PoA explicitly is, as Lupin states, fear of fear itself.
So if we go with all of the aformentioned for argument’s sake, Lord Voldemort is going to not only fear "fear", he’s also going to fear death. Woo. Sounds like He_Who_Must_Not_Be_Named could be He_Who_Doesn’t_Want_To_Leave_The_House.
There’s your gleam of triumph flashing though DD’s eyes, IMO. If there’s part of Harry in Voldemort, one might come to the conclusion that Voldemort underestimated taking Harry’sblood in GoF, thereby strengthening what Voldemort got from Harry in GH and DD suspected such. It could ultimately be a deciding factor in Lord Voldythingy’s downfall.
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