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A Horcrux is not a soul fragment or a ghost. It is a backup of the brain-state of the caster, stored on some physical medium. (Think Joss's DollHouse or Charles Stross's ''Glasshouse'' here, among other sources.) Restoring from this backup, however, requires a target to restore onto; with current levels of magic technology, that means a living human being's brain, which is overwritten with the restored brain-state.

* Or, as an alternative: Harry's new office really is up high in the internal structure of Hogwarts. It's just that the entire internal structure of Hogwarts is underground, while the castle only contains (magical equivalents of) [=WarpZones=], to make it look like a normal castle. The advantage of building Hogwarts like this was that its builders were not constrained by its outer physical shape and they could make any sort of arrangement to the inside without altering the external shape of the castle.

** As a further corollary: this realization will make Harry wonder for a little while whether Cliff Bleszinski was a wizard, then he will dismiss it as an amusing coincindence.

Specifically, it's not "high enough in Hogwarts that nobody looking from the outside would see a piece of castle corresponding to where Harry now sat". Instead, it is underground, in a room that is only connected to the castle by an invisible portal. The office proper is surrounded by another room, where all walls, as well as the floor and ceiling, are enchanted to project a 3D image of the lands surrounding Hogwarts, as they would ''look like'' from somewhere high above the castle.

** As a further corollary: this realization will make Harry wonder for a little while whether Cliff Bleszinsky was a wizard, then he will dismiss it as an amusing coincindence.

* As a corollary: '''Harry will figure this out in 1998, after trying to edit an [[VideoGame/UnrealI Unreal]] level.''' The Unreal engine can handle this very effect: to implement it, it is enough to use two WarpZones to connect two locations, add a SkyZoneInfo high above the main part of the level, and check the ''Fake Backdrop'' and ''Unlit'' tags on every surface that must project the image of the skybox.

Voldemort is still alive. She has a nigh-indestructable, superhuman body that radiates an aura of pureness, and once again has Harry's trust to the point that Harry is sending her on missions.

Everything speaks for Quirrell doing it. He notices stuff, like Margaret Bulstrode having a Time Turner. He would have noticed that the Weasley twins somehow knew when to hide and where to go – maybe already when helping them with Skeeter, which he most likely did – and he would have found out how. And memory charmed them again, since they obviously didn't remember that it was a map they had. He must have been hoping that Harry would shed his restraints when Hermione was dead.

* Confirmed.

He was "delinquent" in that he failed to keep the Death Eaters together. He was extremely useful during the original establishment of the DE, because, as he said to Neville, the Dark Lord needed the cooperation of House Malfoy to get people to join his cause. And he has lost much, including his wife.

** Turns out it was an excuse to give him a Time Turner, but it ''also'' wasn't natural, but induced on purpose. By ''Dumbledore,'' of all people.

He was "delinquent" in that he failed to keep the Death Eaters together. He was extremely useful during the original establishment of the DE, because, as he said to Neville, the Dark Lord needed the cooperation of House Malfoy to get people to join his cause.

As foreshadowed by Voldemort. She will become a real daredevil now that she can't get permanently hurt, and reform the school's bullying system. All before her third year.

* What about The Doctor from DoctorWho?

Harry can't very well tranfigure Voldemort back into his original body; since all his memories are gone, it'll probably be better to turn him into a child. Harry will use a memory charm to make his parents believe that he's always had a younger brother who is a year younger than him. Harry has to think of a name to call him, but decides Tom would be tempting fate, so chooses the name Dudley out of thin air.

[[WMG: Quirrell's battle magic class is an allegory for the ColdWar.]]

Of course, that depends on the Guess about the imprisoned Sirius Black being Pettigrew being right. He did know Harry's parents.

* I imagine she will feel remorse at once, thus unhorcruxing her soul. She won't even have to be told she has to feel remorse to do that.