Harry Potter; intentional Horcrux? Really Long. . .

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kenney" <kenneyjohn at y...> wrote:
> It is my belief that Harry Potter is an intended Horcrux.
> 
> That Voldemort intentionally made him a Horcrux in contrast to using
> the Avada Kedavra Killing Curse on him.
> 
>I also think that Harry is a Horcrux, but an unintentional one.  I 
believe that Voldemort truly wanted to kill Harry, thus using the 
Avada Kedavra, but he didn't know the charm that Lily had placed would 
cause the rebound.  Lily played the hysterical mother in order to get 
Voldemort to needlessly kill her, he wanted to do the same to Harry, 
performed the AV and it rebounded - and instead of it killing 
Voldemort, it reduced him to vapor because of the six Horcruxes that 
he had already placed/enacted to become immortal.  Hadn't Dumbledore 
said that he believed that Voldemort hadn't been able to enact the 
last Horcrux before that night in Godric's Hollow?  Dumbledore was 
suggesting that Nagini could be the seventh Horcrux, but I believe 
Nagini is a red herring - merely a means by which JKR could suggest 
that a living being could harbor a bit of someone else's soul.  I 
believe that when Dumbledore was talking to Harry at the end of CoS, 
he said that Voldemort did not mean to pass some of his abilities to 
Harry - but the curse had connected them.  I believe that the last bit 
of soul that could leave Voldemort's body was transferred to Harry 
with the rebound of the AV, and that part of Voldemort's soul still 
resides in Harry.  It explains a lot of things, such as why Tom 
Riddle's name sounds familiar to Harry upon first hearing it;  Why 
Dumbledore sees flashes of Voldemort behind Harry's eyes;  Why Harry 
can feel what Voldemort is feeling, etc.

I also think that that explains Voldemort's inconsistent behavior with 
regard to Harry.  He suspects that Harry is the last unintentional 
Horcrux, thus he harbors something of great value to Voldemort.  (Why 
did it have to be Harry's blood that was used in the restoration 
potion?) But Voldemort also knows that there are several other 
Horcruxes out there.  I don't believe that Voldemort needs all the 
Horcruxes to continue, so that explains why he would tell all of the 
Death Eaters not to harm Harry (presumably saving for himself to 
kill), but then might lose his temper and want to kill him/and or 
Dumbledore to kill him, as in the MoM at the end of OotP.  It depends 
on how greedy Voldemort is feeling about how many Horcruxes he wants 
still intact. . .       

I think the big climax of the series will be Harry, having found all 
of the other Horcruxes, will find out that he has been the last one 
all along.  What he will have to do at that point, I don't know.  I 
think the whole Dementor angle is very interesting at this point, 
though.  What does happen to a soul when a Dementor sucks it out of a 
person?  Does it remain with the Dementor?  I have found it to be very 
curious that nearly every time a Dementor has gotten near Harry, and 
given enough time, they have tried to perform the "kiss".  I've always 
thought that they wanted to destroy Harry, but what if they were 
trying to retrieve something of Voldemort's. . .way off the point, I 
know. . .

Sorry this was so long, but I've had my thinking cap on since 
finishing the book - as all of you have;-)