[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry Potter: A Horcrux

[Peggy Wilkins]

No: HPFGUIDX 151069

On 4/18/06, latha279 <brahadambal at indiatimes.com> wrote:
Brady:
> > On 4/17/06, Leonard Kim <muhahawa at ...> wrote:
[snip]
> > > if Harry is a horcrux, then he has to die in book 7...
> >
> Peggy worte:
> > Not necessarily.  Now, I don't believe that Harry is a Horcrux, but if
> > he were, I can imagine a scenario where Harry and Voldemort switch
> > bodies (that is, Harry possesses Voldemort's body and vice versa). If
> > this happened, it's possible that Voldemort and his soul piece could
> > become one inside Harry's body, and--presto chango!--no more Harry
> > Horcrux.  Now that's a bit of magic.
>
> My question is : why didn't that happen in the MoM Battle at the end
> of OotP? It should have happened then.

Peggy:
Perhaps because Harry was still inside his own body at the MoM.  In my
proposed scenario, Harry has left his body because he is possessing
Voldemort.  I have imagined something like this:

Harry possesses Voldemort; Voldemort is driven out of his own body
because of the pain/agony this causes him, and goes into the nearest
convenient receptacle, Harry.  This mutual possession/body swap hasn't
occurred before, so who knows, it may be a possible way to un-Horcrux
Harry.

I'm not going to argue the feasibility of it (can Harry possess
Voldemort or would he want to), but I expect someone will want to ask
that.

Brady:
> Point also is, if there is a piece of Harry in LV, why did he also
> suffer mortal agony? He should have felt more comfortable there.

Peggy:
Good question; I don't have an answer for that one.

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