DD not like himself - Horcrux Theory

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 135497

I have been thinking about the fact that DD does not seem like 
himself.  Yet I am sure that it was DD on the tower, and that he is 
dead.

Here is my theory as to why DD does some things that are out of 
character for him.  The thing that gets to me the most is the way he 
keeps saying how smart he is, and this is not the humble man that I 
know DD to be.  So what happens when you destroy a horcrux?  I think 
that somehow some of the Darkness of LV goes into the person that 
destroys it.  I have not thought this through as much as I would 
like to.  I don't remember Harry being any different after CS.  But 
then Harry used the Basilisk to destroy the horcrux in the diary, 
and this was sort of like destroying evil with evil or something 
like that.

DD on the other hand, (no pun intended) did not do that.  When you 
don't use LV's own powers against him do you end up taking part of 
him into yourself?  This thought is along the line of DD being a 
horcrux himself after destroying the ring.  

If we look at Christian theology of the sacrifice of Jesus on the 
cross and compare that to DD in this book we can see DD taking part 
of the evil one into himself.  During the crucifixion Jesus took the 
evil of the world into himself and in so doing he transformed it, 
also for a brief moment in time while this was happening Jesus was 
separated from the Godhead (the Father).  Is this what DD is doing?  
Has he taken the evil that was LV out of the ring and into himself?  

If DD did become a sort of horcrux in this way, this would explain 
why he acted so out of character at times.  He had part of LV within 
him.  LV would be the *proud* one. Maybe when LV set up the horcrux 
system he did it so that anyone that tried to destroy one would take 
that part of him into themselves.  From this point maybe the part of 
LV would then *try* to act within the host personality to kill 
someone to again make another horcrux of an object. 

This would also explain the plea that we see in DD as a KILL ME. 
This is like when LV took over Harry for a bit in Book 5. Maybe what 
Snape saw in DD and what caused him to have such a look of hatred in 
his eye was not DD, not the idea of AKing DD, but the part of LV 
that he saw in DD. 

The main problem with this theory (and there are many) is while it 
fits with the DD is symbolic of Jesus on the cross; it does not fit 
with Harry in the CS.  Harry does not have any more of LV in him 
than he may have had in the beginning.  

I don't know where to go with this and I have probably not said it 
very clearly.  The whole idea is a bit complicated.  Any helpers?

Tonks_op