[HPforGrownups] Harry as Horcrux

[Peggy Wilkins]

No: HPFGUIDX 150211

On 3/27/06, mosaic at wi.rr.com <mosaic at wi.rr.com> wrote:
> Mosaicwench:
> 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.

Peggy:
I think Harry's scar can account for the "all here in your head"
comment.  The scar is on his head and seems to be some kind of active
connection to Voldemort.  Voldemort is the Heir of Slytherin;
therefore the scar is potentially a direct connection to Slytherin (or
rather, Slytherin's blood line).

I think the scar is very interesting.  It seems to act like an
endpoint on a network.  There are quite a variety of networks in the
WW, that is, nodes connected together in one way or another that allow
travel between/among the nodes.  All these things act like networks:
the portraits (portrait subjects travel between nodes); Floo Network
(endpoints can be added and deleted from the network); Vanishing
Cabinets; Portkeys; and probably some other things I am not
remembering just now.  I like the idea of Harry's scar as an endpoint
on a network that connects him to Voldemort; and both he and Voldemort
are able to travel along the network, between its two endpoints. 
There seems to be energy held in this network, and it's quite
interesting that Harry's scar is shaped as a lightning bolt which is a
common symbol of power (as in "Danger: High Voltage").  The scar is an
active connection, not just a sign of a long-ago accident.

The Sorting Hat must have seen the connection.

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Peggy Wilkins