Scar Horcrux - again!

esmith222002 c.john at imperial.ac.uk
Wed Aug 16 09:21:11 UTC 2006


No: HPFGUIDX 157009

If I could ask JKR a question it would be 'How could a rebounded AK 
destroy a house?'.
Surely it should kill the person it rebounded upon (in this case LV) 
and that should be it!
If LV wasn't attempting to AK Harry, then the obvious alternative would 
be he was trying to make Harry a Horcrux. 
When you look at events, there is a certain logical flow to this 
theory. LV kills James - presumably this encounter is 'duel-like'. He 
has committed the murder to make the Horcrux. He goes to Harry. He 
dismisses Lily (her death isn't important to create the Horcrux), but 
her constant attempts to stop him cause him to kill Lily. Now it is her 
death that is being used to create the Horcrux.
What happens if you attempt to make a Horcrux using a sacrificial death?
Perhaps attempting to merge the ultimate act of evil with the ultimate 
act of love is not possible. The spell is violently ejected from Harry, 
and this destroys Godric's Hollow and 'kills' LV in the process. The 
scar is the remnant of the Horcrux spell that was ejected from Harry. 
It is NOT necessarily a Horcrux, but some residual part of LV's soul 
may have been retained.

This also leaves the possibility that LV remains one Horcrux short! As 
I have stated before, the fact that LV was snake-like on the back of 
Quirrel's head suggests that Nagini may have been a Horcrux before LV 
entered Godric's hollow i.e. still one short at GH. I have also 
suggested before that LV would have liked the idea of using Harry's 
death to create a Prophecy Horcrux (important death tied in with 
important object)! If this is the case, LV may still really want 
Harry's death to create the final Horcrux - it also sets up the 
possibility of Harry facing LV thinking there is a Horcrux left, when 
in fact there isn't!

A final duel at Hogwarts with LV intending to make Gryffindor's sword a 
Horcrux with Harry's death (maybe)!!!

Brothergib







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