Small choice in rotten apples

[Neri]

No: HPFGUIDX 148400

"dungrollin" wrote:
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> 
> I won't repeat all the evidence for Horcrux!Harry, except to say 
> that I don't know what else could have happened at Godric's Hollow 
> to tie up so many loose ends. Basically, this theory relies on 
> Horcrux!Harry, as well as Anne's theory, ok?
> 
> So this is it:
> I reckon the bit of Voldy's soul that ended up in Harry, has been 
> knitting with Harry's soul in the kind of healing process that 
> Anne's theory would predict. Harry's soul has incorporated the Voldy 
> fragment. Harry doesn't have to *die* to get rid of the last 
> Horcrux, he has to *kill*. 


Neri:
As a supporter of Horcrux!Harry I have considered this solution too.
You don't say it explicitly, so let me see if we are thinking about
the same thing: When Harry will kill Voldemort, Harry's soul will
split "at the seams", he will lose the part of his soul that was
originally Voldemort's, and Voldemort (who would be vapor again at
that point) will die completely.

This is certainly an elegant solution in terms of magical "soul
mechanics", but I'm not sure I like it thematically. It would suggest
that the evil part of us exist in order to fight even worse evil. This
isn't a bad moral in itself, but the specific solution above would
suggest that you can *get rid* of the evil part of your soul by
killing somebody more evil, in this is what I don't like.

Personally I'd prefer Harry assimilating the soul part until it loses
its connection with Voldemort. As I understand Potterverse soul
mechanics, once this soul part is completely Harry's and not
Voldemort's, it cannot function anymore as Voldy's Horcrux, and
therefore Harry would not have to die. Thematically I think I'd like
this solution better, because it would suggest that evil will always
remain part of us, even after a great external evil was eradicated,
and that we need Choice in order to master it. I suspect that JKR was
thinking about Cain ("sin is crouching at your door; it desires to
have you, but you must master it" Gen 4:8) and this is why she gave
Harry a scar on his forehead.

At any rate, it's good to know that JKR has several options to save
even Horcrux!Harry.

Neri