Harry Potter: A Horcrux

[Leonard Kim]

No: HPFGUIDX 151027

Rather than argue whether this theory is or is not likely (I happen 
to think it is) I was wondering whether anybody in the past several 
thousand posts or so has tried to work out its consequences if true?

Assuming all other Horcruxes are disposed of ...

the most basic outcome, which has been proposed here before is that 
if Harry is a horcrux, then he has to die in book 7.  If that is in 
fact true, then somebody else must be tabbed to vanquish Voldemort (a 
phoenix-like re-risen Dumbledore, "good" Snape, etc.).  That wouldn't 
necessarily be inconsistent with the prophecy, since presumably 
Voldemort will be the one to have killed Harry, thus making himself 
vulnerable just when he thinks he has triumphed.  Yet, I think this 
would be a nearly impossible scenario to pull off in a way that would 
be satisfying either in a literary sense or to the readers.

A slightly more complicated scenario, again I'm sure somebody's 
thought of this -- not only is there a piece of Voldemort in Harry, 
but after GOF, there is a piece of Harry in Voldemort.  Obviously 
Harry hasn't murdered anybody, but this could mean that Voldemort is 
de facto a kind of Horcrux for Harry.  That makes something like the 
following sequence of events possible: 1) False tragic ending: 
Voldemort "kills" Harry, in the process destroying the Harry/scar 
Horcrux.  However, Harry is not dead dead because some part of him 
lives on inside Voldemort.  (Just as Voldemort was not dead dead 
after having a killing curse rebound on him.) 2) Somehow, that 
essence of Harry is extracted from Voldemort and used to restore him 
in a scene that parallels the end of GOF and in the actual climactic 
ending, revived Harry vanquishes Voldemort.

Of course, that event sequence is purely speculative and unlikely, 
but it does follow from the observations that not only does Harry 
unquestionably have some essence of Voldemort transferred to him, but 
the opposite is also true.  This gets my "gleam of triumph" vote.  It 
is also consistent with the prophecy (especially "neither can 
live while the other survives" which at the face of it doesn't make 
much sense -- after all, aren't both "living" now?  But not if they 
are both missing parts of themselves to the other.)  Finally, having 
an incomplete soul explains why Harry's personality is so much more 
unpleasant starting with OOtP (sorry, that last bit's just subjective 
reaction.  It can't all be teenage angst, can it?)

Anyway the point is not whether the Harry==horcrux theory (or 
any other theory) is right or not, but that it might make a better 
story than Harry destroying a bunch of objects and then having a 
lightsaber duel with Voldemort, and I have some faith (though a bit 
less after HBP) that Rowling knows this.

My only actual prediction for book 7 is that Ron and Luna end up a 
couple.  I just hope that doesn't portent a bad fate for Hermione. 


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