Harry as Horcrux

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No: HPFGUIDX 150146

> Alcuin:
> 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. 

Mosaicwench:

The more I've gone back and read and re-read, I don't think LV
unwittingly made Harry a Horcrux, I think it was deliberate.  Perhaps
that green light he remembers as a child was from another type of spell
rather than the AK - one that made him a human horcrux. No one else ever
survived the AK, but we don't know anyone else who hase been made into a
human Horcrux, either.

When the sorting hat sorted Harry it said "Are you sure? (Not Slytherin)
You could be great you konw, it's ALL HERE IN YOUR HEAD (emphasis mine),
and Slytherin will help you on the way to greatness . . ."  I don't
believe there is anything in Harry's background or past that would point
the hat to a Slytherin placement - unless he had a little piece of Voldy
in him . . . It would explain the parselmouth, and the dream Harry had
the very first night at Hogwarts when Quirrel's turban was telling him
to switch to Slytherin at once because it is his destiny.  

I'm probably wrong, but I like my theory and during re-reading I seem to
find all sorts of evidence to support it.

mosaicwench