Harry Horcrux redux :)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 155074

Nikkalmati:
> 
> Dumbledore comments on Voldemort's progress in HBP:
> "However, if my  calculations are correct, Voldemort was still at least one 
> Horcrux short of  his goal of six when he entered your parents' house with 
> the intention of  killing you. He seems to have reserved the process of 
> making Horcruxes for  particularly significant deaths. You would certainly 
> have been that. He  believed that in killing you, he was destroying the 
> danger the prophecy had  outlined. He believed he was making himself 
> invincible. I am sure he was  intending to make his final Horcrux with your 
> death." [2]
> 
> So, if  there had been a chance to make Harry into a Horcrux, it would have 
> had to  be at Godric's Hollow. 

Pippin:
"Calculations"?  Sixth book? It's a logic problem!

 If Dumbledore is  calculating by Voldemort's appearance, then it must 
have changed between the time Dumbledore last saw him and his 
appearance at the MoM. But if there was no change between the time 
the Death Eaters last saw him and his re-embodiment, then the last 
change in Voldemort's appearance must have taken place *before* 
Godric's Hollow.

In that case, neither Nagini nor Harry is the sixth horcrux. I agree that
it is likely to be a living being. Now, who do we know who is being 
kept alive and under guard by Voldemort despite having outlived 
any obvious usefulness?

Peter Pettigrew! Something of Gryffindor's indeed. It would explain
the odd discrepancies in Peter's character. It would explain how
Peter acts at times with "a presence of mind"  we could never expect
from him.  It would also offer some economical plotting, since if
Peter sacrifices himself he will pay back his debt and destroy a 
horcrux at the same time.

It also allows Voldemort to have horcruxes from all four Houses,
which would be more in character for him than achieving three
and then setting that goal aside for a less compelling one.

Pippin