Keep Harry Horcrux Free Challenge!

[esmith222002]

No: HPFGUIDX 140306


> > When Voldemort was strong enough he realised that he couldn't be 
> > picky, and just had to choose a Horcrux to make the number up to 
7. So he chose Nagini - which is why he looks so snake like!!
> 
> But didn't Voldemort's features change gradually, becoming more and
> more distorted with each new horcrux, with the eventual result 
being a
> pronounced resemblance to a snake? (My own theory about why 
Voldemort
> has a snakey face changes from it having to do with his Slytherin
> blood to the notion that as he loses more and more of his soul, he
> becomes less and less human/mammalian, and regresses evolutionarily
> into something more primitive and cold-blooded. I wonder, if he
> continued to make horcrux after horcrux, if his arms would atrophy 
and
> fall off and his legs fuse into something long and tapered and 
sinuous...)

Yes, but if you read the chapter 'Lord Voldemort's Request' in HBP, 
you will find that it states that VOldemort had yet to possess his 
snakelike appearance, but rather he looked drawn with bloodshot eyes. 
If we consider how many Horcruxes he had made at this point - 
definitely the ring and the diary (via the Riddle murders), probably 
the locket and the chalice (during his time at Borgin and Burkes) and 
maybe the as yet identified Horcrux as well. So why wasn't he looking 
snakelike at this point. Only after making Nagini his last Horcrux 
(if DD is correct) did he develop his snakelike appearance. You could 
even suggest that this was a clue specifically planted by JKR!!

> 
> > Yes, the problem of Harry's Voldemort-like powers remain. But it 
is 
> > still possible that the rebounded AK caused a transference of 
power.
> 
> It's entirely possible. I just doubt it, considering that this would
> mean that not only was Lily's sacrifice and Harry's survival of an 
AK
> something hitherto unseen in the magical world, but that yet another
> completely unprecedented (as far as we know) event took place in the
> form of Harry ending up with some of Voldemort's powers. Horcruxes 
are
> (somewhat) known magic, and the unintentional transfer of even a
> mini-horcrux-sized piece of of Voldie's soul into Harry would 
explain
> several things (parseltongue, the connection, maybe even the voice
> Harry heard in his head 4th year urging him to resist the DADA
> teacher's Imerio!) without the need to grasp after yet more vague,
> unexplained magic.

OK let us consider the AK spell. It is the only means of committing 
murder by magic that we know of. We also know that you have to kill 
to be able to split the soul. Therefore the AK is inextricably linked 
with soul splitting. There is also several instances of canon, 
suggesting that to perform an AK, you have to really, really mean it. 
Therefore perhaps the AK requires a transference of that hatred, that 
wish to destroy into the spell itself i.e. the very essence of 
the 'evil soul'. It is therefore perfectly logical to me that this 
power may be transferred if the AK can be blocked!
> 
Brothergib