Dumbledore knows? (Re: Speculating on Voldemort's conscience)

[zgirnius]

No: HPFGUIDX 142388


> Jen wrote: 
> My thought is Harry would be almost relieved to know he is a 
> horcrux, one less to worry about finding, you know?  He doesn't 
fear 
> dying, understands the value of being like James and Lily and all 
> the others who believe defeating Voldemort is a cause worth 
fighting 
> and dying for. I *could* see Harry detaching himself from his 
> friends if he found that out, something Dumbledore has always 
> discouraged (perhaps because of his own mistakes in that area?). So 
> that could be a reason for Dumbledore to withold, except that takes 
> us back to the story about Nagini. *Sigh*. Circular.

It seems to me that Voldemort really was trying to kill Harry at GH. 
So the one way I can see Harry being a Horcrux would be if it somehow 
happened by accident. Supposing Voldemort wanted to make a Horcrux 
that night, and use Harry as the murder. This is all quite consistent 
with V's modus operandi. This would have been his sixth and final 
Horcrux, housing the seventh and final piece of his soul. He would 
have wanted a special object (unknown, might we see it in Book 7?) 
and a special victim (prophecy boy) for the process. He might have 
planned to get it all done right then and done some magic to prepare 
the Horcrux prior to the killing. Then, when the killing went wrong, 
in the resulting magical chaos (new soul bits from killing Harry's 
parents, the horcrux preparation magic, Lily's Love Magic, the AK), 
one or more of the soul bits ended up with Harry (or his scar...)

Under this scenario, Voldemort when he came back would not ralize he 
had made a Horcrux that night. Thinking he was still one short, he 
would want to make one more. Possibly, as DD guesses, Nagini. So DD 
would not be lying about Nagini. Telling Harry he is a Horcrux would 
not mean less Horcrux-seeking for Harry. There would still the the 
four to find and destroy, *and* Harry. SO DUmbledore would not be 
lying, merely omitting a nasty suspicion (or positive knowledge) that 
he has.