If Harry is NOT a Horcrux...

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Cindy:
> A lot of my original post has been snipped where I compare 
> Dumbledore to Harry after reading Dumbledore's statement that Harry 
> is more valuable than he so therefore, DD will drink the potion.  

> To me, everything we have seen, including Lily's protection, does 
> not give Harry the advantage which would "mark him as his equal" to 
> Voldemort. So what is it?  ...most of the evidence points to the 
contrary -- Harry is quite vulnerable to Voldemort, wand or no 
wand... 
it still leaves 
> us with just what is it that Harry is, possesses or has the ability 
> to do to make him more valuable than Dumbledore in defeating 
> Voldemort? 
 
Christina: 
> > I suppose you could say that that's what 
> could have accounted for DD's gleam (one less horcrux to destroy), 
> although
> > I would think that it would have only made the current Voldemort 
> more
> > powerful and difficult to defeat.  Not to mention the fact that
> > Dumbledore would have mentioned any suspicion of this to Harry (I
> > would think).


hg: 
Christina, the bit of evidence you are using to counter Cindy's 
argument makes me think that it could actually be used to defend it.  
We know the gleam of triumph is extremely important.  What if it IS 
because Dumbledore is realizing that Harry is a Horcrux?  Notice that 
right after the gleam, his expression falls.  
Dumbledore, beginning with Harry's birth (likely long before) and 
through Book 4, is arranging all the players into their places in 
order to destroy Voldemort.  But by Book 4 he's also realizing how he 
loves Harry.  (I think if he'd been able to keep a lid on his 
feelings before, the graveyard story pushed it off.)  So in Book 5, 
he makes the "mistake" of trying to protect Harry by distancing 
himself from him.  In book 6, aware of that mistake, Dumbledore 
doesn't distance himself anymore, but he also doesn't tell Harry that 
he suspects he's a Horcrux (if for the moment we assume he does 
suspect).  
Seems to me, if Harry is one and if Dumbledore knows it, then 
Dumbledore has to proceed with his plan as he outlined it from the 
beginning, regardless of how he loves Harry, and telling Harry he's a 
Horcrux at this juncture would be a mistake.  He'd be saving that bit 
for later, or want Harry to discover it on his own.  We know that 
Dumbledore hadn't finished with Harry, and he hadn't been forthcoming 
about everything yet (he never told Harry about Snape being the 
eavesdropper, for one).

Of course, there could be other reasons for Dumbledore to say that 
Harry's blood is more valuable than his, but this still would not 
deny the possibility that Harry could be a Horcrux and Dumbledore 
could suspect as much.
hg.