Harry Horcrux redux

[Neri]

No: HPFGUIDX 155053

> Carol responds:
> <snip>
> 
> How, then, does Harry see into Voldemort's mind and speak 
Parseltongue
> if he's not a Horcrux? Simple. We accept Dumbledore's explanation
> given early on that some of LV's *powers* were transferred to Harry 
at
> GH

Neri:
This isn't an explanation, it's a description. It boils down 
to "Voldemort's powers were transferred to Harry because Voldemort's 
powers were transferred to Harry".


> Carol:
> and that the scar creates a conduit between them, perhaps because
> Harry acquired a particular form of Legilimency ("the usual rules
> don't seem to apply to you, Potter") along with the Parseltongue.

Neri:
The problem is that no such particular form of Legilimency was ever 
described in the series. So if this will be the explanation it's 
going to be a very ad-hoc explanation (and IMO also a bit of an 
anticlimax). 


> Carol:
> I would not be at all surprised, in fact, I'm expecting to learn 
that he
> acquired the power of possession as well. 

Neri:
That may very well be, but it still doesn't explain how the powers 
were transferred.

OTOH we have a ripped soul part released into the air in GH (once 
Voldemort had lost his body). This is a soul part of a wizard who can 
possess people, and we already have canon for another of his soul 
parts possessing a little girl, who acquired Parseltongue as a 
result. And this one is his *seventh* soul part, when no previous 
wizard in history had ever divided his soul more than once, so 
practically no one in the WW really knows what a seventh soul part 
can or cannot do. Even if I were Dumbledore himself and had all his 
knowledge, I'd still be presuming to conclude that such a soul part 
cannot accidentally turn into a living Horcrux.


> Carol: 
> So, as I see it, there's no plot reason for Harry (or his scar) to 
be
> a Horcrux,

Neri:
There's an obvious plot reason for Harry to be a Horcrux, and 
especially the *last* Horcrux: It would mean that he has Voldemort's 
memories up to the point when this Horcrux was created. IOW the 
identities and locations of all the previous Horcruxes are stored in 
Harry's head. He only has to come to terms with what he is and reach 
deep enough into his own mind. 


Neri