Harry as a horcrux

[Neri]

No: HPFGUIDX 157073

> Snow:
> 
> I could definitely give you this one since I don't care completely 
> for the unintentional Horcrux but more so that Harry received that 
> portion of Voldemort's split soul. Harry would then contain 
> Voldemort's soul minus the complex spell that creates the Horcrux. 

Neri:
I'd say this is the most likely solution. It rids us even of the
objection regarding the Horcrux spell not performed in GH. Now
everything fits perfectly. We know that Voldemort's soul was ripped in
GH because he murdered Harry's parents. This fragment was likely
released when Voldemort was hit by the rebounded AK. We know that it's
possible for Voldemort's soul fragments to possess people since the
fragment in the diary did it to Ginny. Most likely the fragment in GH
possessed Harry, the last person alive in that house. This accounts
for Harry having Voldemort's powers, for the brother wand choosing him
and for what the sorting hat saw in his head. 

So poor baby Harry became an orphan and was delivered to his wicked
relatives, and he was very lonely and miserable there, but he
discovered that he had a secret friend inside his head, just like
Ginny discovered Tom: 

"No one's ever understood me like you, Tom 
 I'm so glad I've got this
diary to confide in 
 It's like having a friend I can carry around in
my pocket 
"

Of course, the soul fragment would want to take over Harry, just as
his brother took over Ginny. But Harry was protected, he had his
mother's love in his blood, and maybe in time this love also affected
the soul fragment. It too was lonely, after all, and it remembered its
own miserable childhood when it too was an orphan among muggles. So in
time the soul fragment fused itself into Harry's soul, hidden itself
very well, so even Harry wouldn't remember him. We know these soul
fragments are very good at making you forget things. Only Harry didn't
forget completely:

"And while Harry was sure he had never heard the name T. M. Riddle
before, it still seemed to mean something to him, almost as though
Riddle was a friend he'd had when he was very small, and had
half-forgotten. But this was absurd. He'd never had friends before
Hogwarts, Dudley had made sure of that".

No, it's not absurd. It fits perfectly.

And I still think Voldemort is aware of that, or at least he suspects
it. He wants his lost soul fragment back, so he can encase it inside
Nagini as his last Horcrux. Dumbledore never said Nagini is a Horcrux
*now*. He said "it occurred to Voldemort to make her his last
Horcrux". I say Nagini is slated to suck the soul fragment out of
Harry, and Dumbledore had been suspecting it for some time.

So in OotP, when Dumbledore heard that Harry possessed Nagini, he
panicked and quickly conducted one of his alchemical experiments: "but
in essence divided?" The smoke serpent split itself into two serpents,
and Dumbledore had a look of grim satisfaction - the soul fragment
inside Harry is still separated from Voldy. Good, because Harry will
need it, to remember where all the Horcruxes are hidden, and to use
Voldemort's powers against him.

And I suspect Voldemort ordered Snape to find out if the soul fragment
is still in there. This explains why Snape was digging so dip for all
those early painful memories. Never did strike me like the proper way
to teach Occlumency. But the soul fragment had hidden itself very
well, and unlike Harry it *is* a superb Occlumens, so the earliest
Snape ever got was Dudley making Harry stand in the toilet. No wonder
Snape was angry <veg> . I don't think this soul fragment wants home to
papa. I think it likes its new home just fine.

Now, why does this theory feel familiar? Oh yes, I came up with
something like it more than two years ago, when I tried to invent the
most dreadful conspiracy theory I could think of – ESE!Harry:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/99072

> Snow:
> Harry is still a container for Voldemort's bit of soul but without 
> the spell so
would that cause Harry to have to commit suicide to 
> vanquish it? 
> 

Neri:
This is the question, innit? I don't think it would. But maybe the
soul fragment would commit suicide itself? 


Neri