[HPforGrownups] Re: Small choice in rotten apples

[Kathy King]

No: HPFGUIDX 148438

Dungrollin:
Well... that's one way it could work, though it's not my favourite,
because I'm not sure that JKR is going to let Harry off that lightly.

Since the events at GH which created UnintentionalHorcrux!Harry in
the first place are necessarily vague,* it's a bit cheeky of me to
start picking apart what should have to happen in order to kill
Voldy, but what the hell...

Harry must kill in order to rip off the Voldy fragment which has
knitted itself to his own soul. It's canon that to create a horcrux
you have to have done this, but Slughorn says that to encase the
torn piece there is another spell. Presumably this is the bit that
is 'against nature', the part of the operation which gets the soul
bit out of you and into the locket/ring/diary/cup etc. There are two
distinct steps in the process. So even once Harry has ripped
Voldemort's soul fragment from his own soul, the Voldy fragment will
still be inside Harry, and will still be acting as a horcrux keeping
Voldemort's last piece of soul, the bit inside his body, alive. He'd
be reduced to Vapour!Mort again.

Basically, I don't think Harry would be able to get it all done with
one Avada Kedavra on Voldy. I think that another life will have to
be lost.

Snow:



Except that you may be forgetting that it is inadvisable to create a Horcrux
with a living thing such as Nagini (or Harry) because they have a will of
their own. HBP U.S. 506



There is a wide-open space for wiggle room for the author to proclaim that
even an unintentional-Horcrux!Harry had a will of his own so anything can
happen as a result.



JKR is the ultimate, isn't she? She may be bad at maths but the way in which
she combats her expected confrontations (i.e. not all deatheaters knew each
other) is phenomenal. I'm fairly sure this is one of those accounts.


Snow


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