Living Beings as Horcruxes (was: Re: Harry Potter: A Horcrux)

[kkersey_austin]

No: HPFGUIDX 150863

Peggy, I'm, I'm... shocked! Flabbergasted! 


Just a tiny bit of Peggy's post:
> I began wondering about living beings as Horcruxes as soon as I
> started wondering what happened to Voldemort's split soul when he
> became Vapormort.  When he came up to kill Harry, his soul was 
> already split; then he was ripped from his body.  What became of the
> torn portion, anything at all?  Did it evaporate?  Did it flee along
> with the "main" Vapormort?  Did it plop onto the ground, abandoned? 
> Did it wander around on its own?
> 
> It's provocative to speculate that if it lay abandoned, someone may
> have found it and "done something" with it.  

Elisabet:

Hey, can I borrow that speculation for a moment? Yes? Thanks...

I find the idea that Dumbledore might have installed a Voldybit into
another human being a little, er, shocking, to tell the truth. And I
doubt that DD was at Godric's Hollow himself anyway.

But what if *Snape* was the one that found and retrieved the stray bit
of Voldemort's soul? Having already turned to the good side, what
would he have done? Destroyed it, I think, perhaps turning it over to
Dumbledore, perhaps taking care of it himself. Or, perhaps, per
Peggy's theory, instead of destroying it, volunteering to house it for
a while. (I can't see DD agreeing to this, actually, Snape would have
to do that to himself.) LV would not have counted that missing part as
a horcrux, so that could explain why DD did not mention it to Harry.
Still.

What I like best about this theory, :-) , is that I can bring in one
of my own pet ideas, that DD does not himself know why he trusts
Snape: he has removed and stored that memory safely out of his head
(and out of Snape's as well, I presume). Leaving it available for
Harry to find and experience via penseive in the seventh book, of course. 

So the possible course of events:

- Snape turns against LV but remains undercover as a spy
- LV decides to attack the Potters; Snape either comes along with him,
or having found out is right behind
- LV rips his soul murdering the Potters and is then vaporised,
leaving the torn bit(s) floating around. LV's soul does not stick
around the vicinity, so he does not witness what happens next
- Snape retrieves and/or destroys the voldybits
- DD is informed (if he was not already involved) and as a safeguard
the memories - Snape's and DD's - are removed to long-term storage. 
- Now whenever DD is asked why he trusts Snape, he really *can't* say
why, just that he knows he trusts him. 

So what do y'all think? Possible? 

One consideration is why DD would ever think a memory was safer in a
bottle than in his own head... perhaps he had removed it just prior to
summoning Harry for the cave adventure, fearing the possibility of
putting himself in LV's power if things went wrong.

Elisabet, going out on a limb