Harry as Horcrux

[jekatiska]

No: HPFGUIDX 150187


> > 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.
>

Jekatiska: 

Great theory. There's just one flaw: if Voldemort knowingly made 
Harry a Horcrux, why on earth would he try to kill him? And he has 
tried to kill him twice since the events in Godric's Hollow: at the 
end of GoF and at the end of OotP (CS doesn't count, since Tom 
Riddle as a past version of Voldemort wouldn't know about it). Maybe 
my mind is 'hopelessly mundane' but I just fail to see the logic 
here. The theory of Harry accidentally becoming a Horcrux, though 
otherwise dodgy, can at least still hold the attempts on his life.

Jekatiska