Accidental Harrycrux : a theory

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 155444

Pat:
> 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?
>
Carol responds:
I also find this discrepancy annoying. Maybe it's a Flint, like
Scrimgeour's reference to a Stupefied DE who was actually Petrified,
and of little consequence, but I don't think so. I think it's a case
of DD being on the right track but not quite spot on, and his reark
that LV used Nagini to kill Frank Bryce is our clue to that.

IMO, Nagini *is* a Horcrux, but she was already a Horcrux as far back
as Godric's Hollow, as indicated by LV's snakelike appearance at that
time, his dependency on Nagini's venom both to create and to sustain
the "rudimentary" body that Wormtail creates for him while he's
waiting to be resurrected, and his (LV's) ability to possess Nagini
without killing her. If I'm right, DD's error is insignificant--Nagini
is still a Horcrux and still must be destroyed as the last step in
Harry's Horcrux Hunt.

But whether the detail is a clue or a Flint, I don't think it affects
the arguments for Nagini as Horcrux, only the use of Frank Bryce's
murder to make her one.

Carol, who has already presented her Nagini!crux arguments in detail
and doesn't want to repeat them here