Harry Horcrux redux :)

[fuzztail2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 155094

Bill here:

I've been following this discussion for some time and I think we have
been told, way back in book 2, that Harry is actually a Horcrux,
although created accidentally.

Review the scene when Harry has returned from the Chamber of Secrets
and he an Professor Dumbledore are sitting in Professor McGonagall's
office. This is on pages 332-3 of the U.S. edition.

Harry has remarked the Tom Riddle (from the diary) has said that they
show certain similarities. Harry begins to question this, but then,
remembering that he was almost sorted into Slytherin House, pauses.
Professor Dumbledore replies: "...Unless I'm much mistaken, he
transferred some of his own powers to you the night he gave you that
scar. Not something he intended to do, I'm sure..."

"Voldemort put a bit of himself in me?" Harry said, thunderstruck.

"It certainly seems so."

Note that Harry did not repeat back what DD said, but said something
different. DD does not correct him, but affirms his interpretation.

Lest we get the idea that "powers" can exist on their own, we need
only to refer to PoA, page 247 U.S. edition. Here Professor Lupin is
explaining to Harry about the Dememtor's Kiss.

 "It's what dementors do to those they wish to destrou utterly. I
supposet there must be some kind of mouth under there because thy
clamp thier jaws upon the mouth of the victim and - and suck out his
soul."

"What - they kill -?" (said Harry)

"Oh no," said Lupin. "Much worse than that. You can exist without
your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still
working. But you'll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no...
anything. There's no change at all of recovery. You'll just - exist.
As an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever...lost."

Here we see that the soul seems to be  the source of all higher
powers: thinking, speaking, doing magic, etc. Without a soul it seems
the one would exist in what might be called a "permanent vegetative
state".

This is why I think that Harry is the final Horcrux and that some of
LV's soul was transferred to him. What JKR will do with this I haven't
a clue. The "friendly Dememtor" idea suggested previously (by I
forgot who, sorry) was interesting.

Okay, let's hear the rebuttal.