Harry the Horcrux

[Derek Hiemforth]

No: HPFGUIDX 134031

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "McGovern" <andmcgrn at y...> wrote:
> How can Harry be a Horcrux?
> 
> In order to completely destroy Voldemort he would have to kill 
> Voldemort - but then he himself would be keeping Voldemort alive? 
> (or stopping him from dieing)

And from LV's point of view, that's the very attraction of making Harry
the Gryffindor Horcrux.  :-)

The prophecy said (by LV's reading) that either Harry would kill him
or he would kill Harry.  By making Harry a Horcrux, he would be covering
all possible bets.

Because as long as Harry is alive, then LV can't be killed either because
he has Harry as a Horcrux.  But if Harry is killed, then LV wins, because
the "Chosen One" didn't slay him!

In fact, I suspect that may be why LV tried to kill Harry in the first place.
When getting the other known Horcruxes associated with the Four
Founders, LV slew one of that Founder's descendents in process.
(He killed a Hufflepuff descendent in getting the goblet, and a
Slytherin descendent in getting the locket.)  If Harry (and James) are
descendents of Gryffindor (as seems likely), then that pattern would
still hold; LV slew a Gryffindor descendent (James) to get the Gryffindor-
related Horcrux (Harry himself).

Then having accomplished this, he simply decides to kill Harry right
then and there!  Sure, this means he'll lose the soul fragment he just
invested in Harry, but that's a small price (to LV) to pay for assured
victory, right?

Only he didn't count on Lily's sacrifice.  So not only could he not just
kill Harry, but he'd also now invested his enemy with some of his soul,
perhaps boosting his power (and giving him such things as the ability
to speak Parseltongue).

- Derek