Harry is Not A Horcrux, But the (SCAR) Sword Is

[Kathy]

No: HPFGUIDX 161369

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, <lil.magill at ...> wrote:> 
Marion here:> Sorry if I'm repeating anything others have said, but 
there's 
> so much volume in this group, and I'm forced to skim some 
> of the longer posts.  I don't thing the sword will be a horcrux 
> -- too easy, and Dumbledore would have surely thought of it 
> and destroyed it long ago.  As far as Harry - or Lily or any 
> other living thing --being a horcrux, isn't it too risky?  If the 
> person dies, V's soul would die with it.  Seems to me they've 
> got to be inanimate objects.
>

Yikes - volume like no other place.  

As far as Horcruxes having to be inanimate...Dumbledore thinks that 
Nagini is one, and I didn't believe it until I read this passage 
again in OOP:

For the first time, Dumbledore sounded frightened. Harry could not 
see why: the hall was quite empty but for themselves, the sobbing 
Bellatrix still trapped under the witch statue, and the baby Fawkes 
croaking feebly on the floor --  Then Harry's scar burst open and he 
new he was dead: it was pain beyond imagining, pain past endurance --
He was gone from the hall, he was locked in the coils of a creature 
with red eyes, so tightly bound that Harry did not know where his 
body ended and the creature's began: they were fused together, bound 
by pain, and there was no escape --

And when the creature spoke, it used Harry's mouth, so that in his 
agony he felt his jaw move
 `Kill me now, Dumbledore
'

Blinded and dying, every part of him screaming for release, Harry 
felt the creature use him again
 `If death is nothing, Dumbledore, 
kill the boy
'

Let the pain stop, thought Harry
 let him kill us
 end it, 
Dumbledore
 death is nothing compared to this

And I'll see Sirius again


And as Harry's heart filled with emotion, the creature's coils 
loosened, the pain was gone; Harry was lying face down on the floor, 
his glasses gone, shivering as though he lay upon ice, not wood


Note that it never says Voldemort or Riddle...it says CREATURE and 
COILED...

We are seeing/feeling this from Harry's point of view.  Why does 
Dumbledore feel Nagini is a Horcrux.

Still - a scar is an inanimate object and qualifies as something 
able to capture a piece of Voldemort's soul.
KathyO