A Twist on Stoned!Harry

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No: HPFGUIDX 51927

Hullo, all.  Caroline here, delurking after many months.
 
Annemehr wrote, amongst lots of nifty ideas:
> > I think that Harry was not *born* as the living philosopher's 
stone. 
> > I think that he *became* one on the night that Voldemort tried to 
AK 
> > him but failed, *transferring some of his powers* -- and 
*essence* 
> -- to Harry that night.
> 
> And part of that essence needs to include unicorn blood.  
Fortunately 
> for me, I think that's entirely plausible.

Me:  I think that's really interesting.  Actually, I'm very glad to 
see it.  One thing a lot of people have trouble agreeing with me on 
is Lily's connection to Slytherin, needed, IMHO, for the alchemical 
equation.  Your explanation sort of sidesteps that, by linking the 
unicorn symbol to a known Slytherin, and I like. 

(Am still a firm believer in Lily's connection to Slytherin, and all 
the Ginny-Lily parallels that follow, though.  Just for the record :-)

But
 - *knows she is getting waaay into out-there territory here*  - 
I don't *entirely* believe that Voldemort tried to AK Harry that 
night.  I mean
 whose word for it do we have?  Crouch-as-Moody.  Less 
than trustworthy, IMO.  It's possible, I think, that Voldemort was 
trying to suck out Harry's power in some way, rather than doing a 
plain old killing curse.


> > Annemehr again:
> 
> Good, because there's something else I didn't address.  Apparantly, 
> just as the philosopher's stone could turn base metal into gold and 
> mortal life into immortal, it was also said (about Nicolas Flamel, 
I 
> believe) that it would turn an imperfect soul to perfect.  So, if 
> instead of trying to kill Harry and thus destroying his own stone, 
if 
> Voldemort did something else with Harry (what, though?) would he 
then 
> be redeemed?  Discuss.
> 

Now *that's* interesting too.  I've thought about that - that maybe 
some sort of redemption might be an accidental effect of Voldemort's 
alchemical tinkerings - but I haven't come up with any specific 
theories.

Caroline, bouncing to see stoned!Harry around again