Accidental Harrycrux : a theory

[Ken Hutchinson]

No: HPFGUIDX 155430

> Ken wrote:
> 
> > DD says LV could have created a horcrux by using the caretaker's
> > murder and he used Nagini to commit that murder.
> > 
> > 
> > Ken
> >
> 
> Pat responded:
> This is something that has bothered me for quite a while.  I haven't
> seen it discussed here and wondered if anyone else found it somewhat
> disturbing.  Yes, Dumbledore gave Harry the information that Ken cites
> above, but Harry's *dream* specifically showed us that Nagini was not
> the agent of death here - LV used an AK.  Harry never corrected DD,
> but the two stories do not jibe.  I'm torn between thinking that DD
> could be wrong about Nagini-as-horcrux here, or if the detail is
> simply insignificant and doesn't change the outcome.  Does anyone have
> any thoughts about this?
> 
> Thanks for your two knuts,
> Pat
>

Ken:

You are right I was taking DD's word for this since this scene was the more
fresh in my mind. Now that you mention it Frank's "echo" in the graveyard
scene reports that it was LV not Nagini that killed him too. I suspect that
JKR might have originally planned for the caretaker's killing to be done
like the attack on Arthur Weasely and then forgot that she changed it when
she wrote the scene in HBP. DD says those words to Harry who is not shy
about correcting DD, screaming at DD, or smashing up DD's office by this
point and Harry doesn't say a word about the error.

It is possible that DD was speaking of using Nagini in the murder in a 
broader sense, as someone else suggests. I tend to think it is an error
on JKR's part. In either of those cases it would not be significant. If DD 
did make an error maybe it was an intentional one. Those of us who 
think that Harry *could* be a horcrux tend to believe that DD *could*
be trying to plant the idea of a living horcrux into Harry's mind without
coming right out and telling him that he is a horcrux. DD has a tendency
to withold information from Harry when he doesn't believe Harry is 
ready for it. We've had that drummed into us endlessly. DD could be 
making an intentional mistatement that will stand out in Harry's memory 
at some point and lead him to realize that He, not Nagini, is the horcrux. 
The wonder is that Harry does not see the error immediately so that would 
be a rather weak reed for DD and JKR to lean on.

Ken