Harry not a Horcrux - Soul without Horcrux

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 161121

---  "Neri" <nkafkafi at ...> wrote:
>
> > > Carol responds:
> > > <snip> 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 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>.
> > <snip>
> 
> Neri:
> ...
> 
> Currently I tend to Snow's version, according to which 
> no Horcrux encasing spell, intended or unintended, took
> place in GH at all. I think this is probably the simplest
> solution. According to this version, when Voldemort lost
> his body, his soul piece that was ripped because of Lily's
> murder simply drifted and entered the body of baby Harry 
> via the open gash on his forehead. ...edited...

bboyminn:

I am hardcore in the camp that 'Harry is not a Horcrux'.
Yet, Neri (and Snow's) theory appeals to me. While I
refuse Horcrux!Harry, I'm not against a stray bit of 
Voldemort's soul being in Harry. Perhaps in that one
terrible instant when the soul feared death, the newest
and freshest tear in Voldemort's soul sought out the 
nearest lifeforce it could find and held on. That nearby
lifeforce, and the last remaining lifeforce on the scene,
was Harry's. For now, that soul-bit is just along for the 
ride clinging to a now familiar life. 

It could be that in the end, through a yet to happen set 
of circumstances, Voldemort will try to kill Harry and in
doing so will send a soul-bit to hell. In a sense, in 
trying to kill Harry under the new 'yet to happen' 
circumstances, it will be Voldemort who kills himself.
Perhaps Harry will try to kill Voldemort and fail, and
think that perhaps all is lost, and his best efforts have
failed. Then Voldemort will turn on Harry, but instead of
killing Harry he will truly kill himself. He will destroy 
(or release) the last remaining soul-bit, the spell will 
rebound on a fully mortal Voldemort, and that will be the
end. 

My version may be a little ragged, but I can see some
potential for story resolution around a bit of Voldie's
soul residing in Harry, but residing there by chance or
by choice, yet in no way a Horcrux.

I now ponder what happens to the other soul-bits when
they are 'destroyed', since I don't think the soul IS
destroyed, only the object holding it. Could these 
released soul-bits, which we assume are eternal, be
joining the best of Voldemort in Harry, thereby making
Harry more strongly protected against Voldemort? Or,
perhaps they are just wandering around waiting for 
the rest of Voldie's soul to be released so they can all
cross over?

Still, I'm stuck with the ideadthat Dumbledore never said
anything. He has given us all our information about Harry's
scar, about the connection, about Voldemort, about Horcruxes.
It seems very unlikely that Dumbledore hadn't thought of
this. 

Still, of all the theories I've read so far, this is
about the only one I could get behind.

Steve/bboyminn