Believing Harry is not a Horcrux

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Geoff Bannister wrote:
> <snip> 
> I cannot subscribe to the idea that a Horcrux could be created 
> accidentally. This is not mixing the wrong ingredients for a potion 
> and creating something new and unexpected. The spells for a Horcrux 
> must be very specific and powerful. I do not think that in the 
sudden 
> turmoil of the backfire and personal disembodiment which would have 
> been disorientating, to say the least, that Voldemort would have 
been 
> able to do anything further in the way of casting spells and I see 
> Lily's protection – whatever form it did take – saving his life and 
> nothing else.

Neri:
But can you subscribe to the idea that an AK rebounding from Lily's 
protection would result in the unintentional transfer of powers? And 
in the possible transfer of memories too (Harry thinking That Tom 
Riddle's name is familiar in CoS). Would it also forge, by pure 
accident, a link between the minds?

If you do subscribe to these ideas, then assuming also an 
unintentional Horcrux doesn't seem like that much of a leap anymore. 
In fact, an unintentional Horcrux could explain the powers transfer, 
the memories transfer and the mind link. It would be a *more* 
parsimonious explanation, not a less parsimonious one.

If you don't subscribe to the unintentional transfer of the powers 
and the accidental forging of the mind link, then you have *a lot* of 
canon to contend with. I know that from personal experience <g>. 

Neri