Harry a Horocrux ?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 151863

julcrybor wrote:
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> I have been wondering if it is possible for Harry to be a horocrux.
We know one is something of Gryffindor well what if Harry IS a
decendent of Gryffindor. LV went to the Potters and intended to kill
Harry to make a horocrux well there might be a spell or something that
you do before you kill that makes it possible to put the portion of
soul that splits into something else. What if LV did that and when
Lilly stood in his way and they activated the ancient magic something
went wrong and his soul split and when he tried to kill Harry he
transfered his soul into Harry. That would also explain the mental
connection between them. Maby it is far fetched or maby not. Maby
Harry would have to kill himself in the end.

Carol responds:
As you'll find if you search the site for "Harry Horcrux" (no quotes),
Harry the Horcrux is probably tied with Snape for the most popular
topic since the sixth book came out.

While only a few people think that Voldemort would deliberately create
a human Horcrux, quite a few believe that he accidentally did so. (I
don't; I think that the deflected Avada Kedavra destroyed Voldemort's
body and in the process transferred some of Voldie's powers into Harry
via the open cut, which was not yet a scar, but I don't think that a
soul bit can be transferred that way.)

Slughorn tell Tom Riddle that the soul is split by the act of murder
and then the soul piece is encased in an object using a spell that he
either does not know or refuses to divulge. It sounds to me as if a
deliberate act is required to encase the soul in the object *after*
the murder has been committed; certainly no such spell was performed
at Godric's Hollow. Voldemort went right from the duel with James to
the confrontation with Lily, killed her, attempted to kill Harry and
was himself reduced to vapor when the spell rebounded. (I don't know
what happened to his body; perhaps it exploded.) Also, your idea seems
to detract somewhat from Lily's deliberate sacrifice of her life as
the source of the ancient magic. Surely the protection would begin at
the moment the deflected AK burst out of him and would have protected
him from the great evil of becoming an accidental Horcrux. (The
transfer of powers, OTOH, would give him protection and weapons that
no one else has, making him uniquely capable of destroying Voldemort.)
We know that these powers include Parseltongue; they may include a
distinctive form of Legilimency via the scar. I predict that they also
include possession, and that he will destroy Voldemort by possessing
him and making Voldie wish for death (or leap through the Veil with
Harry still possessing him, after which the extra soul, Harry's, would
find its way back to the other side, perhaps using Sirius Black's body
to transport it--and, no, that would not bring Sirius back to life,
but it would at least provide his friends with a body to bury).

The idea that Harry is a descendant of Gryffindor has also been
suggested, in part because of the name Godric's Hollow. However, IMO,
it's more likely that Dumbledore (along with his brother Albus) is the
descendant of Gryffindor, which would explain why he has a Phoenix
with the Gryffindor colors and why he owns Godric Gryffindor's sword.
I would guess that Godric's Hollow was once his home and he proposed
it as a hiding place for the Potters at the same time that he proposed
the Fidelius Charm idea and offered his services as Secret Keeper.

Not saying that I'm right and you're wrong, just that these points
have been rather thoroughly discussed and you should be able to find
plenty of threads on both sides of the Harry the Horcrux argument.

Carol, fervently hoping that Harry is not a Horcrux and that he will
destroy Voldemort without having to die himself