Harry not a Horcrux

[dungrollin]

No: HPFGUIDX 161046

> Carol responds:
> I agree completely. I don't believe that it's possible to create an
> accidental Horcrux because a spell is needed to encase the soul 
bit...

Dungrollin:

I've just had an idea about this perennial question of how to 
accidentally make a Horcrux (and sorry to all you who are sick of it). 
And I'm posting it immediately, which means either it's been done a 
million times over, or there's something seriously wrong with it - I'm 
sure that either or both will be brought to my attention, <g>.

How about, the reason that Voldy gave Lily a chance to get out of the 
way ("Stand aside, you silly girl!"), was that he didn't know she was 
going to be there (perhaps he *had* promised her to Wormtail, or 
something gross like that), and, thinking the house was empty, he 
completed the Horcrux-preparation spell just after killing James. He 
goes to the room where baby!Harry is, and is surprised to find Lily 
there. He doesn't want to kill her, because then the next Horcrux 
would be made with *her* death rather than Harry's, which was supposed 
to be the grand finale to his 7-Horsecrutch plan.

After much declaiming, and giving her chance after chance to move, he 
finally realises that Lily's *not* going to get out of the way, so he 
banishes Nagini (or the object he was going to make into a Hogtruck, 
and kills the unarmed Lily anyway, hoping that without the intended 
object around, attracting the soul-piece, the Horse-box won't get 
made. 

Unfortunately, one of the bits of preparation magic is something along 
the lines of making the encasing object 'sticky' like a living body, 
so that the soul-piece will be glued there. Some property of a living 
human body which keeps its soul stuck to it has to be given to the 
potential horcrux object if it is to retain the piece of soul 
securely. If the object were Nagini, the spell would still be 
necessary, because I doubt that JKR believes that animals have souls. 
This makes more sense of the blood-like spurting ink imagery when 
Harry stabs the basilisk fang through the diary in CoS.

Making Horlicks is such an unusual event in the WW that Voldemort can 
be forgiven for not correctly judging the consequences (this is 
seriously dark magic, and can't be stopped with a simple 'finite 
incantatem'), which are that the piece of soul ripped off during the 
killing of Lily is attracted to the nearest 'sticky' object, which is 
Harry, because he has a soul which is attached to his physical form by 
this 'stickiness'. 

Voldemort may not have been aware at this time that he'd created a 
Horcrux (DD reckons he's not aware when they're destroyed) - perhaps 
he summoned Nagini back, checked she was not carrying a piece of his 
soul, thought 'phew!', and proceeded with the plan to kill Harry, 
intending his death to provide the soul-piece to turn Nagini into a 
Horcrux. 

Dung
Not for a second thinking that (even if my reasoning is watertight) 
that it will change any minds, because if you don't like Horcrux!
Harry, you don't like it.