Believing Harry is not a Horcrux

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 139873

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nkafkafi" <nkafkafi at y...> 
wrote:

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>. 

Geoff:
I don't disagree with the transfer of powers; it may even have been a 
duplication of powers because Voldemort retained his power to speak 
Parseltongue.

It's the structure where I may differ. As a Christian, I accept the 
concept of "love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all 
your mind and with all your soul".

To that end, I see the transfer of powers and memories that you list 
as being intellectual - i.e. of the mind. I do not see them as being 
to do with the soul and thus do not imagiane bits and pieces of 
Voldemort's soul moving over to Harry. Perhaps, he retained two 
pieces of torn soul in himself at that point.