[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry a Horocrux ?

[Peggy Wilkins]

No: HPFGUIDX 151869

On 5/3/06, Len Jaffe <orgone9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Now Len:
> Let's for a moment converge "Harry Horcrux?" and "Who
> else was at GH?" and approach it this way: Who was at
> GH, that fateful night, with dark (strong?) enough
> powers and magical know-how to cast the horcrux spell?
>
> Snape?
> Malfoy?
> Dumbledore?
>
> I can't think of a reasonable motive for either of
> them to perform the spell.
<snip>
> Does it get attracted to Harry's cut and enter on its
> own? Does somebody else enter and cast a binding
> enchantment to bind it into Harry?

I can't see either Dumbledore or Snape making Harry into a Horcrux;
but I can see either of them making one out of something else, if they
came across that severed soul bit.  You ask for motivation, and
indeed, why not destroy a found soul bit instead of keeping it? 
Because keeping it potentially gives them power over Voldemort.  It
gives them control; it can be used against him.  Consider, for
instance, the possibility of destroying it at just the right,
well-planned moment, a moment that could result in Voldemort's death. 
Take him by surprise (Occlumency will be required) and he won't have
time to do anything about it.

My money is riding on there being one such Horcrux that is unknown to
Voldemort; and Snape knows about it.  Snape may even *be* it, and he
is in the perfect position to deploy it at just the right time.

> I don't think Harry is a horcrux, but I also don't
> have a plausible explanations as to what links Harry's
> scar  and LV.

The failed killing curse links them: it binds them together, it has
left its mark on Harry.  In my view, the only relevance of Horcruxes
to this connection is that it was the Horcruxes Voldemort had made
prior to that night at Godric's Hollow that kept the killing curse
from working.  Had he not had at least one Horcrux, the killing curse
would have worked, Voldemort would have died, end of story.

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Peggy Wilkins
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