Horcrux dispatching (was Re: Harry's Soul with Harry as horcrux)

[amanitamuscaria1]

No: HPFGUIDX 155459

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Mike" <mcrudele78 at ...> wrote:
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> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, juli17@ wrote:
> > 
> > > > Mike:
> > <SNIP>
> > > > Another case: he never told Harry how to  destroy a
> > > > Horcrux, despite the fact that he promised to expand on the  
> > > > Ring Horcrux story. Is this not an important piece of
> > > > knowledge?  
> > >  <snip>
> > 
> > > Alla:
> > 
> > > Oh, totally, that is one of the most  important reasons I never 
> > > bought Dumbledore wanted to die on the Tower  argument. 
> >  
> > Julie:
> > I agree that DD really didn't tell Harry how to destroy a 
horcrux. 
snipsnip
> > But I also think horcrux hunting in the way Dumbledore performed  
> > it in HBP won't happen in the Book 7. Been there, done that, 
after 
> > all, and JKR isn't one to repeat herself, especially when she has 
> > about a thousand other things to deal with in Book 7! Certainly   
> > the rest of the horcruxes will be addressed and destroyed, but    
> > probably in a manner and perhaps with an expediency we can't yet  
> > fathom ;-)
> 
> Mike again:
> I agree, there won't be a lot of paragraphs wasted on the great 
> Horcrux hunt. But if, as you say, the rest of the Horcruxes must be 
> destroyed, I didn't see DD give Harry any lessons, verbal or non-
> verbal, on how to do it. Like I questioned elsewhere, maybe 
> destroying Horcruxes is the easy step in this whole process and 
> Harry doesn't need any lessons on the destruction part. Maybe the 
> whole trick is getting your hands on the things, avoiding or 
getting 
> around any spells/booby-traps that LV set up to protect the things. 
> But we have no indication in canon that this is the case. 

AmanitaMuscaria now:
Perhaps - your posts got me thinking - perhaps this is a classic JKR 
big red herring?
Maybe Harry doesn't need to do anything with the horcruxes?
Maybe the point is exactly that Harry can possess Lord Voldemort 
without coming to any harm, whereas LV can't possess Harry without 
great pain?
OK, what happens if Harry and LV duel, and it's a duel of possession? 
If Harry kills LV, AND destroys the soul part in LV, what happens 
then?
Obviously, I don't know, nor does anyone except JKR. But as everyone 
has said, Dumbledore hasn't shown Harry how to disable horcruxes. 
Harry isn't going to believe anything Snape might tell him about 
disabling horcruxes, as he believes Snape is a DeathEater. JKR isn't 
going to have the last book be a long horcrux hunt, she's got too 
much else to write for that.
I'm wondering, though, if LV got it totally wrong. He's been busy 
splitting his soul and storing pieces all over the place.  And, 
perhaps, if he just gets killed, however that happened in Godric's 
Hollow, he's ok - he's protected by his horcruxes. But if he gets 
killed AND the soul piece in him is destroyed, maybe his little soul 
orphans just - sort of - vanish?
JMO. AmanitaMuscaria