Harry the Horcrux Destroyer

[mandorino222]

No: HPFGUIDX 146728

> >Steve: 
> > <snip>
> > By withholding details, Dumbledore has left Harry completely
> > unprepared to tackle the remaining Horcruxes. I can accept 
> > that Dumbledore was busy and away from the castle frequently,
> > but if he really valued Harry and accepted the task Harry had 
> > ahead of him, he would have taken a few seconds to talk to 
> > him, and would have set someone else the task of bringing 
> > Harry up to speed on curse breaking and Horcrux destroying. 
> > <snip>

> Quick_Silver:
> Maybe Dumbledore didn't feel that formal training in either 
> curse breaking or Horcrux destroying was what Harry needed 
> though. <snip> So it could be that Dumbledore didn't want to 
> put Harry in intensive training for skills that he might never 
> need. <snip>
> 
> Rather I think that Harry should have been paying close 
> attention to Dumbledore's investigative skills
his cunning at 
> getting information, the way that he connected dots and 
> followed through leads, and his knowledge of how Voldemort 
> works. And I do think that Dumbledore showed Harry those things
> in HBP
hence the pensieve trips to watch Dumbledore in action, 
> the task involving Slughorn, and the fact that Harry is 
> connected to Voldemort's mind and has been within it. Take as 
> an example how Harry got the memory from Slughorn
the basis of 
> that idea, to get Slughorn drunk, was in Harry's head the day 
> that Ron was poisoned. So Harry has the right idea he just 
> needed the Felix potion to jingle the circumstances a little. 


An interesting thought that occurred to me while reading this 
post is that the task of getting the memory from Slughorn is in 
many ways like finding and destroying the horcruxes.  Hermione 
notes that getting the memory from Slughorn is not a mission for 
which force is required, or Dumbledore would have either done it 
himself or assigned the job to someone with more magical 
experience.  

Rounding up and destroying the horcruxes, we must assume, is 
imilar in that respect.  It has to be a job for which Harry's 
unique characteristics (parseltounge, abilitiy to love, ability 
to read Voldemort's mind, etc.) are uniquely suited.  Therefore 
Harry will not need to know how to destroy a horcrux or how to 
prevent the curse from enveloping him, because one or more of 
his unusual/hidden powers will take care of that for him.  

We know from OOTP that Voldemort, even after the blood 
transformation, cannot possess Harry's body without experiencing 
serious physical pain.  Perhaps Harry's nature will similarly 
repel curses from Voldemort's horcruxes?  Maybe if Harry is, in 
fact, a horcrux, there's some provision in Voldemort's curse 
writing code that prevents the curse from one destroyed horcrux 
from destroying another?

Also it fits nicely that in order to learn about horcruxes, Harry 
must succeed in the mini-horcruxish mission of getting the memory 
from Slughorn.   

Nick