Harry is Not a Horcrux (was Re: HBP: Assorted threads in one)

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Saraquel:

> I also have another strong objection to the theory that Harry is a 
> Horcrux.  We saw what the Diary Horcrux did as soon as it came into 
> contact with a sentient being.  It sucked on Ginny's life force and 
> tried its absolute best to get itself a real living body again.  It 
> doesn't strike me that Harry has been fighting a piece of 
> Voldemort's soul all these years.  
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I'm not so sure. I think it may be different. With the diary and 
Ginny and Quirrel and not-quite-whole Voldemort, that was possession. 
I think that this would be a little different as long as Voldemort 
didn't intend on making Harry a horcrux, which is sort of what 
Dumbledore hints at when he talks about Voldemort unintentionally 
transferring some of his "powers" to Harry that night. I think that 
it is fairly certain that Voldemort wouldn't have made Harry a 
horcrux intentionally (or at least, if he wanted to, he thought that 
it had failed) because he seemed genuinely surprised about all of 
this stuff Harry can do. And let's not forget that Harry didn't begin 
having Voldemort's emotions until after the protection from his mom 
had been put in Voldy's veins, too. The love could have been keeping 
the evilness of Voldemort's soul down inside Harry until that point 
when he obtained the same protection.
I haven't made up my mind about the Harry as a Horcrux thing yet.


Bigdog