Scar Horcrux - again!

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 157024

Brothergib wrote:
> 
> > 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!
> 
> Amiable Dorsai responded:
> Jo's been pretty good about showing us that botched magic can have
> serious side effects--from Seamus' burnt feather, to Neville's
melted cauldrons, to the toilet that Harry shattered when he missed
Draco with a Leg-Locker.
> 
> Even a magical dud like Lockhart managed to collapse a stone ceiling
> when his Obliviate backfired.  Why should we be surprised that the
> misfire of a powerful wizard's AK was similarly destructive? 
<sniP

Carol responds:
Or, to put it another way, if a rebounded Horcrux spell could destroy
a house, as Brothergib postulated in the portion of his post that AD
snipped, then certainly a rebounded AK could do so. And we know from
interviews (and, IIRC, JKR's website) that the spell that hit Harry
and rebounded on Voldemort was indeed a killing curse:

"JKR: The first question that I have never been asked—it has probably
been asked in a chatroom but no one has ever asked me—is, "Why didn't
Voldemort die?" Not, "Why did Harry live?" but, "Why didn't Voldemort
die?" The killing curse rebounded, so he should have died. Why didn't he?"

http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/articles/2004/0804-ebf.htm

Aside from logical reasons for not deliberately making the boy
destined to destroy you into a Horcrux (it makes much more sense from
a Dark Lord's perspective to kill him--and, as a side benefit, to use
his death as the first step in creating your last Horcrux), it's
pretty clear from that quotation that the rebounded curse was what
it's presented as in the books, an AK.

I agree with Brothergib, however, that the cut that later became a
scar was probably created by the spell bursting out of Harry with
sufficient force both to rip Voldemort from his body and destroy the
house. (If it had been anything other than an AK, it probably would
have done no damage to Voldemort. Imagine himself encasing his own
soul bit back in himself!) We know that an AK entering a victim
doesn't make a mark, but a rejected AK exploding outward would no
doubt create devastation.

Carol, still wondering what happened to Voldemort's body and why
people thought he was dead if it wasn't there