Harry is Not a Horcrux or Maybe he is...

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 137780

Finwitch:
> You see -- that was Harry's childhood 'friend', Tom Riddle. (that 
> deja vu)... an invisible friend, too. Of course, Dursleys being 
> Dursleys, Harry suppressed that early on, believing it was 
> just 'imagining'. You know how Harry dismisses/suppresses this or 
> that piece of information by telling himself he was 'imagining' it? 
> He even tells Sirius 'I just imagined my scar hurt' but Sirius 
> doesn't buy it... because Harry does NOT imagine things.
> 
> So yes, I'd say that, a piece of Voldemort's soul was within Harry, 
> and it communicated with Harry's soul... However, when Voldemort 
> seemingly 'attempted to possess' Harry, maybe he that piece of his 
> soul joined the rest of him?

Valky:
I really think you're on to something there Finwitch. I mean lets look
at it, Tom Riddle, a name that was familiar to Harry, as though it was
a childhood friend he'd forgotten, The Dursleys suppressing magical
instinct out of Harry, Harry learning from the Dursleys to 'believe'
that it wasn't real. That makes good sense. Here's why.

Remember Tom's words about Ginny with the Diary. He said that she
trusted in him, that he had been 'charming' while he listened to all
her little secrets. Ginny said, and this is very interestingly like an
anvil, that it was like having a secret friend in her pocket. So
indeed if a piece of Toms soul had *tried* to take Harry over, and
failed somewhere early in the game, then Harry *would* remember a
'Friend' named Tom Riddle, I think. 

Now some things would become clearer in this light, such as for
instance, the reason that Dumbledore chose the horrible Dursley's for
Harry's home rather than fke his death and hide him in the WW. It may
have been necessary, it may have been that this danger to Harry that
Dumbledore alone could percieve was not necessarily something from
outsode the walls of 4 Privet Drive, but rather something that was
within himself, something that could only be held at bay till Harry
lived long enough to *have* a life of his own, the gift that Lily had
died to give him. Now *that* is BANG for your buck, dontcha agree? An
OMG moment when we realise that if DD hadn't left Harry at the
Dursleys, If he hadn't invoked the powerful magic that Lily had
created for hs protection James and Lily's lives would be lost to
nothing, Tom could have *owned* Harry from infancy. I am beginning to
actually hope more than ever that I have just spoiled book seven, what
 a twist that would make. Forget your Child Protection Services, what
would Dumbleore be in for if he had *ignored* the possibility that Tom
could possess Harry at any moment? 

And Oh the possibilities. Is this what Petunia knows? Does she know
that a piece of Voldemort is inside Harry, Does Remember My Last mean,
remember I told you that Voldemort would possess the boy if he wasn't
protected remember I told you that your sisters own son could become
your worst nightmare just outside your door if you threw him out. Is
this why her face turned pale when Harry told her that Voldemort was
back, did she for one terrifying moment think that she was *looking
right at him*!

And, wait... there's more...  we have the Silver instruments. Another
Wow! What that could mean! Was DD asking if the protection had failed
and that Tom was taking Harry over? Naturally, breathing a sigh of
relief when he found that Tom and Harry remained, "in essence divided". 

Later the OOtP members seem to know something we don't. Moody says,
Voldemort might be possessing Harry. Apparently not sure absolutely
that DD should rule it out altogether, yet. 

And now finally while I am on a roll, a new spin on DD's apparent
peacefulness in Death. At the moment I am leaning towards a hypothesis
that DD expected, and prepared for his own death to occur right before
Harry's protection ran out, but that he *really* didn't want Severus
Snape to be the one who did it. However in the end, both confronted
with their choices realised that it there was no way out. DD was
prepared to give his life for the children of Hogwarts,(possibly
expecting Voldemort to show up and do it) and Snape had tragically and
stupidly locked his own hand to the task. Now DD's face was entirely
peaceful, unlike your average victim of the AK, so what was that all
about? Is this not unlike the ingenuity we have seen in Hermione. Has
perhaps Dumbledore taken a leaf from Lily's book and invoked a
sacrificial protection for his charges? Maybe not as unusual, not the
unique extension of protection that Lily was able to manage due to
Voldemorts offer of choice. But perhaps a similar magic, just large
enough to keep the Hogwarts premises safe. Not long after his death
someone said, which was maybe more than it seemed, that noone had ever
done as much for Hogwarts as Dumbledore. Perhaps his greatest gift to
Hogwarts was indeed his last.

 
> 
> That rather than that Occlumency/Legilimency-business, Harry could 
> see Voldemort's plans in his dreams because of that piece of soul.  
> As he no longer has it, he can't.
> 
> What I want to know, is whether there's seven Horcruxes, as Harry 
> figured, or six as Dumbledore told him?
> 
> Finwitch

Valky:
I think that there might be seven, but Voldemort certainly wouldn't
want it that way. Eight is the number of Ouroboros 'The Snake Eating
It's Tail', a very different magic to seven.