Harry as a horcrux

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 156983

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "robertpatrickallen" <robertpatrickallen at ...> 
wrote:
 
> Right now Harry can't fight Voldi because their wands share the same
> core. That is why Voldi kidnapped Olivander so he could force him to
> make a new wand so that Voldemort could finish Harry himself.

Geoff:
I don't think that statement is strictly true.

First, two snippets of canon:
'Before Voldemort could stick his snake-like face around the 
headstone, Harry had stood up... he gripped his wand tightly 
in his hand, thrust it out in front of him and threw himself 
around the headstone, facing Voldemort.
Voldemort was ready. As Harry shouted "Expelliarmus!", 
Voldemort cried "Avada Kedavra!"
A jet of green light issued from Voldemort's wand just as a jet 
of red light blasted from Harry's -'
(GOF "Priori Incantatem" p.575 UK edition)

'"So what happens if a wand meets its brother?" said Sirius.
"They will not work properly against each other," said Dumbledore. 
"If, however, the owners of the wands force the wands to do battle... 
a very rare effect will take place. One of the wands will force the 
other to regurgitate spells it has performed - in reverse. The 
most recent first... and then those which preceded it..."'
(GOF "The Parting of the Ways" p.605 UK edition)

And then two observations:
The 'rare effect' is that when the two wands connect, the spells 
which they are casting are replaced by the Priori Incantatem spell. 
This spell, in itself, seems not to be rare - Amos Diggory uses 
what I think is the singular version of it in GOF - "The Dark Mark" 
p.121 UK edition -for reference.

Second, the 'rare effect' only occurs when the wands connect and, 
presumably in some way, sense when they are both instantaneously 
in contact. My reading of this is that if Harry or Voldemort had been 
a second or so later in casting, Voldemort would have been disarmed 
or Harry might have been dead, It was the simultaneous timing 
which triggered events.