Ginny as an accidental Horcrux

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 156917

Neri wrote:


> However, note that JKR doesn't say it's impossible in principle. I
> quite agree that what happened between Ginny and Diary!Horcrux was
> meant as a hint that soul parts can do unexpected things. They can
> tempt people, they can possess them, they can make them forget things,
> and they can pass magical powers to them. 
> 
> Neri
>
Thanks for the quote establishing that Ginny is not an accidental
Horcrux, which I snipped (see upthread).

However, if a soul bit possessed the person who destroys the Horcrux,
Harry would be possessed, forced to do Voldemort's will and having
gaps in his memory. OoP makes it clear that Harry is not possessed,
either by the diary soul bit (which appears from the quote to be
completely destroyed) or by the events at Godric's Hollow. Ginny's
soul bit appears to have been released when she got her own soul
back--or else she's only possessed intermittently and Diary!Tom has
the entire soul bit back (along with most of Ginny's soul) when he
talks to Harry and sets the Basilisk on him in the CoS.

I don't see this interview segment as evidence that Horcruxes can be
created accidentally. Tom deliberated the diary Horcrux, which already
had his memory in it, the original purpose being the one he states in
CoS, to carry on Salazar Slytherin's "noble work." He doesn't turn
Ginny into a Horcrux--her purpose is to set the Basilisk on the
"Mudbloods." She's never intended to keep him alive by storing a soul
bit in herself. In fact, the opposite is true. Once Diary!Tom decides
to go after Harry, her purpose changes, and instead of being
temporarily possessed to do his will, he is (figuratively) sucking the
soul out of her to bring himself to life. The soul here is her life
force--nothing to do with her powers. And she has the power to speak
Parseltongue (when she's possessed) not because she's acquired Tom's
powers but because he's controlling her and speaking through her (as
Voldemort speaks through Harry in the MoM, using Harry's voice). And
possession, as we know from Harry's experience with it, is a very
painful state, which lasted a short time because Voldemort couldn't
bear to be in his body. If a soul bit had any ability to feel, it
couldn't bear to be in Harry, either.

Carol, who thinks that Voldie's soul bits are only pieces of the life
force that holds a person on earth and that they're destroyed when the
Horcrux is destroyed or opened, regardless of any curse that may
attack the destroyer, as with the ring Horcrux