Harry not a Horcrux

[Neri]

No: HPFGUIDX 161220

 
> Dungrollin:
> Yes, that's true, but if she went with the simplest explanations for 
> everything, the end result would be rather disjointed, there ought 
> to be a few explanations which give us answers to several questions 
> at once. Since I've never found a satisfying (to me) explanation of 
> why he didn't just AK lily on the spot, nor for the transferred 
> powers (except Harry!crux, of which this is a variant) I like 
> combining them both at the same time.
>

Neri:
Here's my favorite combination: Voldy meant to turn Lily into a living
Horcrux in GH. This is why he didn't AK her on the spot. The bonus
here is that it also explains what was to be the Gryffindor Horcrux:
since Voldy couldn't find a Gryffindor relic, he decided on a
Gryffindor student instead. I also think the special vileness of
making the mother a Horcrux by killing her son would appeal to Voldemort.

 
> Neri:
> <snip>
> This version would also give JKR a 
> > complete freedom in plotting Book 7, because she can decide if 
> such a soul bit would act as a Horcrux or not, and whether it's 
> removable and how, according to what she plans for Harry.
> 
> Dungrollin:
> She's pretty much got that anyway, given how little (and how late) 
> she's told us about Horcruxes. 
> 

Neri:
Of course she can do everything, but it's not very good writing to
mount great obstacles only to wave them out of the way with some ad
hoc explanation. JKR might not be in the habit if working out all the
details, but I can't remember her doing anything like this before.
Pitting Harry in a duel against Voldy in GoF was a huge obstacle, but
the solution (the brother wands), although it was rather arbitrary,
was carefully prepared since Book 1, so it didn't come out as a deus
ex machina.


> Dungrollin:
> Is there any other elegant explanation for the transferred powers 
> other than horcrux-harry?

Neri:
Well, the only other explanation I can remember at this moment is
Carol's, that a drop of Voldemort's blood in GH fell on Harry's open
wound, and the blood contains the magical powers. I'll leave you to
decide yourself about the elegance of this, but I must comment that if
it's possible to transfer magical powers with a simple blood
transfusion, then the implications for the WW (and possibly the muggle
world as well) are nothing short of staggering <g>.   


> Dungrollin:
> Actually, I think that works similarly with my version too, I only 
> suppose that you need a spell to make an inanimate object (something 
> that's not used to carrying a soul) into a horcrux, a living human 
> being like baby!Harry would naturally be 'sticky', and not need any 
> glue.
> 

Neri:
Hmmm
 actually, it does work in your version. Lets see if I understand
it. What you say is that a soul bit would naturally be attracted to
humans. That it actually takes a special effort to make a *non-living*
Horcrux, including clearing the area first of interferring humans? So,
if anything goes wrong with the encasing spell, and there's an
avilable human around, the default result would be a living Horcrux? I
don't know any special canon for this, but it's certainly possible.


> bboyminn:
> <snipped>
> 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. 

Neri:
I certainly didn't think about this possibility. Do you mean Voldemort
AK Harry and as a result the soul bit is released? I tend to think
about the AK as taking away the life force, but if what AK actually
does is sever the connection between the body and the soul, then I
guess it could work. Only it won't be "either must die by the hand of
the other", unless you can make a case for the one and the other being
the two Voldy soul parts



Neri