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

[alcuin74]

No: HPFGUIDX 150141

> > Mosaicwench:
> > 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. <snip>


Alcuin:

Another problem with that theory can be gleaned from OotP.  At the 
end of the Ministry of Magic debacle, Voldemort possesses Harry and 
tempts Dumbledore to kill Harry in order to kill him.  If Harry were 
one of his horcruxes, he would in effect be inviting Dumbledore to 
destroy part of his (Voldemort's) soul.

However, the possibility remains open that Voldemort _unwittingly_ 
made Harry a horcrux.  Perhaps he intended to murder Harry as part of 
a horcrux-making spell while planning to use some other object for 
the actual horcrux, but when his killing curse backfired, Harry 
somehow became the horcrux, bearing a part of Voldemort's soul.  This 
would explain why Harry is a parselmouth, as Dumbledore hints at at 
the end of CoS.