Harry as Horcrux (was Re: What's next???)

[Patricia Hurley]

No: HPFGUIDX 150135

> Mosaicwench:
> I don't know if this has been brought up here or not, so please 
> bear with me.  Could Harry be the last Horcrux?  Could his scar be 
> the representation of that Horcrux?  We know that Horcruxes can be 
> contained in living beings (Nagini) so why not people?

Patricia:
  I think that the problem with Harry being the Horcrux is that 
Voldemort was not planning on Harry living. It would be very unwise 
to store part of one's soul in a rotting, decaying corpse. I think 
that if JKR went that way she would have to seriously reroute the
plot to make it seem like either Voldemort was planning to kill 
Harry, just maim him, or that there is some way to keep dead bodies 
from decaying. I just think that it would be foolish to trust my 
soul to a corpse. But I definitely see where you got the idea, it 
would be a very dramatic ending, and I have always believed that 
Harry must sacrifice himself in the end, going with the theme of 
sacrifice in the books.