HARRY'S SCAR IS NOT A HORCRUX

[heathrawlings]

No: HPFGUIDX 138591

> doddie here:
> 
> I disagree and agree....what if Lilly charmed the last of GG's 
last 
> remaining heirlooms....
> 
> What if Voldemort went to GG's hollow to create his last 
horcrux....
> 
> How fitting that snape did all the spells necessary to create a 
> horcrux yet the only thing lilly didn't charm but protect was 
> harry???
> 

I don't think there was anything conscious that Lily did to protect 
Harry and make the curse rebound. She did the natural, motherly 
thing and threw herself in front of her child, and then something 
happened that had never happened before. LV couldn't have prepared 
for it, but neither could Lily, because she didn't know what was 
going to happen.

> >  
> > JKR has said that this type of sacrifice was never made in the 
WW 
> 
> doddie here:
> 
> well I don't know that she said that...seldom perhaps.
> 
> doddie gone..

No, that's exactly what she said. Here's the quote from the LEaky 
Cauldron interview:

"MA: Did she know anything about the possible effect of standing in 
front of Harry?

JKR: No - because as I've tried to make clear in the series, it 
never happened before. No one ever survived before. And no one, 
therefore, knew that could happen.

MA: So no one - Voldemort or anyone using Avada Kedavra - ever gave 
someone a choice and then they took that option [to die] -

JKR: They may have been given a choice, but not in that particular 
way. "

So no one knew what was going to happen, including, one assumes, 
Dumbledore at that point. 

So instead of ruminating on this event, why don't we speculate that -
if this was the first time it ever happened - is it now possible 
that someone, either alive or dead, knows how to do it?

Maybe whomever else was in Godric's Hollow that night...

> Doddie here:  I'm thinking that the potions book in HBP may reveal 
> something about horcruxes....and Lily may have seen it..
>

That's an interesting idea. I don't necessarily think that Lily 
would have known about it, or what difference that would make, but I 
could see Harry finding some information about Horcruxes (or at 
least perhaps instructions on sensing invisible enchantments) that 
will help him speed up the plot.

Cause I think, in all seriousness, JKs gonna have to pull out 
something at the start of book seven to really kick things off. It 
seems like there's way too much to be done, and having the HBP stand 
in for DD in a quick crash course is a fine idea.


JMO,
Heathrawlings