CHAPDISC: HBP 23, Horcruxes

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Debbie snipped:

Actually, if Harry destroyed the last Horcrux, anyone could kill 
Voldemort.
But Dumbledore might have withheld the suggestion that Harry was the 
last
Horcrux precisely because he didn't want Harry to be focusing on his 
own
self-destruction. And although I'm a big Harrycrux fan, I've come to
believe that Harry's self-sacrifice won't be necessary.

Snow

I totally agree that Harry doesn't need to die to relinquish that 
portion of Voldemort that lies within him. In fact, I think the Voldy 
soul fragment may be the useful tool that Harry will have so he does 
not have to commit any type of violence towards Voldemort.

Could it be that the soul piece serves as a shield itself for Harry? 
Some time back we had questioned if Harry could die, maybe he 
couldn't; maybe this bit of Voldy acts as a shield. 

The bits of Voldy soul that we have confronted so far have been 
protected like a shield, which I always thought was due to a spell at 
the time of encasement but maybe it is a born-in feature of the power 
within the fragment. It may be a stretch but I don't think it's a far 
stretch. 

If this soul bit does act as a shield then anyone who attacks will 
cause harm to themselves, such as the blackened hand with the ring. 
So when Voldemort attacks Harry, he would essentially be attacking 
himself but since it is a shield the AK would bounce back onto 
himself like it did the first time around. 

Going off track ever so slightly here about being shielded from an AK.

Something I noticed when I went back and read about the fountain 
figures that protected Harry and Dumbledore at the Ministry from the 
AK, was that the `Gold' wizard who took the AK hit for Harry was only 
glanced by the hit in comparison to the `Silver' centaur who also 
took an AK hit for Dumbledore but smashed into hundreds of pieces. 

The similar comparison between the two is that they both managed to 
protect and shield each wizard from the AK but the difference was 
that only the `Gold' wizard figure survived the blast. Do you think 
there is anything we could discern from this as far as the AK effect 
goes? 

The first thing that I thought of was that Harry represents the same 
thing that the color Gold does, which is Gryffindor and Voldemort 
represents the same color as the centaur and Slytherin do, which is 
Silver. Don't know what else this could suggest but it does have 
intriguing innuendo. 

If I were playing Clue I would have to say that it is Harry, with the 
last soul bit/shield, back at Godric's Hollow. The murderer always 
returns to the place of the crime, right
and it would be utterly 
ironic if Voldemort made the same mistake he did sixteen years before 
only this time without his Horanchors. 

Snow