Lily, Voldemort, AK and the atomic bomb analogy

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 144791


Ceridwen wrote:
<snip>
 Harry gains some of LV's particular powers, at least one we know of
so far, Parseltongue. That would be a byproduct of the power hitting
him just after the curse is deflected.  I'm assuming that the curse is
what made the scar, and the scar would then be the point of entry for
the power(s) which followed the green light. <snip>

Carol responds:
Without getting into the A-bomb analogy, I want to ask a question. If,
as we know, a normal AK doesn't make a mark of any kind, might the cut
on baby!Harry's forehead (which later healed into a scar) be caused by
the repelled AK *bursting out* of his forehead as the result of his
mother's sacrifice? 

LV's powers (those few that Harry "inherited" from LV rather than his
parents--Parseltongue, a degree of Legilimency, and perhaps
possession)--could then have entered Harry through the cut when Voldie
vaporized. (I don't believe in accidental Horcruxes, but there's no
question that Harry did acquire at least the one power, Parseltongue,
and probably other rare powers associated with LV as well.)

A sidenote another thread tangentially related to this one:

Jen wrote in message 144643:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/144643
The ring was cracked, but if the locket at GP is the real
horcrux, there was no crack mentioned in OOTP. And the diary, while
not a typical horcrux, had no crack. Maybe the ring cracked when
the 'terrible curse' was put upon it, just as Harry received the
scar from being touched by an evil curse? Or else when Dumbledore
tried to remove the curse as the ring was cracked when Harry noticed
it at Slughorn's house.

Carol responds:
I think your last suggestion is correct: the ring Horcrux cracked when
DD released the soul bit and simultaneously released the protective
curse that attacked him through his wand hand. The crack is not a mark
of a Horcrux, IMO, but an indication that the Horcrux is destroyed. So
the seemingly unopenable locket at 12 GP is quite likely to be an
intact Horcrux which, when opened, will release both the soul bit and
a protective curse. Or that's how I see it. (If Bill Weasley opens the
locket and Snape isn't there to save him, will we lose our first
Weasley? Unfair, I know, since Bill has already escaped death once,
but JKR claims that a "writer of children's books has to be ruthless,"
quoted from memory.) 

At any rate, the crack/cut connection is not necessarily evidence that
Harry is a Horcrux. Quite the contrary, IMO, since intact Horcruxes
appear to be *unmarked* and the crack in the ring is a sign that the
Horcrux has lost its powers. (The intact diary in contrast to the
diary stabbed by the Basilisk fang is another example.)

Carol, who's not sure whether Jen agrees or disagrees with
truthbeauty's ideas on cracks as indications of Horcruxes and is just
adding her own thoughts to the mix