If Harry is NOT a Horcrux...

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 136680

> Cindy wrote:
> > Dumbledore, the most powerful wizard that ever lived, tells Harry
> > that the reason he is drinking the potion instead of Harry is
> > that Harry is MUCH more valuable.  
<snipping> 
> > So what IS it that is so unique and VALUABLE about Harry? I just
> > hate to think that at the end of book 7, the OOTP, Ron, Hermione
> > and Ginny are all pointing their wands at Harry and Voldemort's
> > final confrontation, all with tears in their eyes as they have
> > to destroy Harry the Horcrux and then Voldemort.
 
> Carol responds:
> I'm equally puzzled by the idea that Harry's capacity to love
> exceeds Dumbledore's. 
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> I can't see Harry using an Unforgiveable Curse, the weapon of the
> Death Eaters, to kill Voldemort. We know (okay, we assume), that he
> will (with help from other wizards) "kill" the remaining four
> Horcruxes (Nagini, perhaps, using the Sword of Gryffindor). But
> what if he destroys Voldemort, who could not endure to possess
> Harry in OoP, by possessing him, literally killing him with Love?


Jen: Actually, Dumbledore tells Harry his *blood* is more valuable. 

Voldemort denies both his literal blood heritage, even to the point 
of murdering his bloodline, and his symbolic WW blood status as a 
half-blood. The only importance he places on blood is when it's to 
his advantage, like being the Heir of Slytherin.

Contrast that with Harry & you see such a different scenario. 
Dumbledore valued Lily's blood enough to "put my trust in your 
mother's blood." He risked the future of the WW on Harry's blood 
protection!

Harry's blood *is* more valuable than Dumbledore's. The prophecy may 
have been a self-fulfilling one, but Dumbledore made it clear Harry 
is the only one who is dangerous to Voldemort because *Voldemort 
made it so*. All the ways in which Voldemort has killed people are 
closed to him with Harry. Voldemort can't posssess him, the brother 
wands will 'not work properly against each other if forced to do 
battle', & Harry is surrounded by people who are willing to die for 
him. He's been saved by his father, his mother, Sirius, and 
countless times, by Dumbledore (with the assistance of Fawkes). 
Voldemort could never dream of inspiring such love or loyalty like 
Harry does, without even trying!

But most important is the blood. Voldemort literally weakened 
himself when he used Harry's blood for his re-birthing, once again 
underestimating its value. It's not Lily's love coursing through his 
veins that weakens him, it's taking the blood of one who is pure of 
heart, just as he did with the unicorn. He cursed himself. 

Like the brother-wand effect, or being unable to possess Harry, the 
taking of the blood will backfire on Voldemort. My guess is he will 
once again try to AK Harry, after the Horcruxes are gone, and the 
curse will again rebound, only this time killing him for good. 
Voldemort won't be able to kill the innocent person before him, not 
when that person's blood runs through his veins. 

Jen