Harry not a Horcrux

[Beatrice23]

No: HPFGUIDX 161065


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> Kishan:
> Harry can't be a Horcrux.  I mean, think about it, "....neither can 
live while the other survives" the prophecy clearly states that 
someone has to kill the other.  So, Voldemort has got to kill Harry.  
But if he does, he would be losing a part of his soul.  So I don't 
think Harry being a horcrux himself is possible.
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Beatrice:

One of the problems in "reading" and understanding prophecies is that 
the way in which they are worded is almost never as simple as we 
initially think.  Take for example the problems within the Oedipus 
myth.  Oedipus attempts to circumvent his prophecy and ends up 
fulfilling it in the ultimate irony.  He manages this because while 
the words of the prophecy are clear their actual meaning is obscured 
by the mystery of Oedipus's true parentage.  

Perhaps this prophecy merely means that Harry and Voldemort must 
battle each other to the end.  eg. one will live and the other 
won't.  But we have been told time and time again in the cannon 
(S.S./ CoS/ GOF/HBP) that Voldemort isn't really alive.  This is a 
difficult concept for us to grasp.  But as Dumbledore explains it to 
Harry in HBP, by creating the horcruxes Voldemort has constructed a 
type of immortality for himself.  Essentially, that he has traded in 
his humanity, the essence of his status as a living individual in 
order to cheat death.  Therefore Voldemort exists in a state that 
imitates life, ie he is able to breath, eat, exist upon the earth, 
etc., but as he cannot be killed (until his horcruxes are destroyed) 
he is not truly alive.  JKR seems to be defining the act of being 
alive in conjunction with one's mortality.  Paradoxically, that one 
is alive if and only if they capable of succumbing to death.  If you 
consider the prophecy under these conditions, the implication is that 
while Harry survives, Voldemort cannot live and thus cannot be killed.