Harry as Horcrux

[exodusts]

No: HPFGUIDX 150166

> > 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.   
<SNIP>


Exodusts:

One far-fetched idea that I had a while ago was that Voldy 
deliberately planned to make Harry into a Horcrux as the ultimate 
insurance. By making his arch-enemy his life-guarantor he could never 
lose. Something went wrong at the time, he was blown up, DD realises 
what has happened, and has a terrible choice. He could kill Harry and 
destroy Voldemort forever, or let the boy grow and see the return of 
the Dark Lord come about, with only the hope that the boy can beat 
Voldy at the final showdown. This might explain Voldy's taunting of 
DD saying "if death is nothing, kill the boy" etc in OotP.