Harry is Not a Horcrux (was Re: HBP: Assorted threads in one)

[saraquel_omphale]

No: HPFGUIDX 137665

Hi Leora, Welcome to the list.

>Hello. First time poster here, so don't mind me if I'm
>unintentionally breaking about 15 rules by not keeping the old
>message in this post. I find it too distracting from the new 
>message.

Saraquel:
Well I like to put something in when replying directly to what 
someone has posted, so that people know exactly whose arguments you 
are replying to, and if they haven't read the original post, it 
allows them to pick up mid-thread.  If you make sure the chevrons 
are in there, the reader can easily skip the quotes if they want to.

Leora wrote:
>Well, I have something to say about Harry being a Horcrux. He's 
>not.  <snip> It's because you need a spell to encase a soul, and 
>there was no time to encase a bit of soul into Harry or his scar, 
>or his teddy bear, or whatever.  <snip> "Anybody who wishes to kill 
>Lord Voldemort must destroy the part of his soul that is in his 
>body last." Obviously paraphrasing like mad, but still...you get my 
>drift. Harry can't just kill himself before he kills Voldemort.

Sarauqel:
Absolutely, Leora, I get your drift and agree with it. There is the 
Harry-commits-suicide-taking-Voldemort-with-him angle, but I don't 
find that one particularly attractive – well you wouldn't would you, 
big mess on the floor and all that. 

I also have another strong objection to the theory that Harry is a 
Horcrux.  We saw what the Diary Horcrux did as soon as it came into 
contact with a sentient being.  It sucked on Ginny's life force and 
tried its absolute best to get itself a real living body again.  It 
doesn't strike me that Harry has been fighting a piece of 
Voldemort's soul all these years.  And if Voldemort wanted Harry 
dead, and let's face it he does, and the piece of his soul in Harry 
knows that Harry is its enemy because it would only be there because 
Voldemort was trying to kill Harry at the time, then wouldn't that 
bit of soul have sucked the life out of defenceless baby Harry about 
2 nanoseconds after he became a Horcrux – real Voldemort being 
bodiless at the time and desperately in need of one. You get my 
drift
:-)

Saraquel