Harry as a Non-crux - a few thoughts.

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 157853

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jordan Abel" <random832 at ...> wrote:

Geoff:
> > If Harry is indeed a Horcrux than we know that he will have
> > to die in order for Voldemort to be destroyed once and for all.

Random832: 
> No, we don't. We know neither that Harry's death would be necessary
> nor that it would be sufficient to dispose of a soul fragment embedded
> in him or in his scar. And DD has already spoken on the danger of
> making a horcrux out of something that is alive.
 
Geoff:
Dumbledore's comment was to highlight the risk - to Voldemort - of 
making a "live" Horcrux:

'"The snake?" said Harry, startled. "You can use animals as Horcruxes?"
"Well, it is inadvisable to do so," said Dumbledore, "because to confide 
a part of your soul to something that can think and move for itself is 
obviously a very risky business."'
(HBP "Horcruxes" p.473 UK edition)

Voldemort may have decided to take that risk either knowingly or 
blundered into it unknowingly. However, on this general question 
of destroying Horcruxes, I offer into evidence the following quotes 
from canon:

'"Quite correct," said Dumbledore, nodding. "But don't you see, Harry, 
that if he intended the diary to be passed  to, or planted on, some 
future Hogwarts student, he was being remarkably blasé about that 
precious fragment of his soul concealed within it. The point of a 
Horcrux is, as Professor Slughorn expiained, to keep part of the self 
hidden and not to fling it into somebody else's path and run the risk 
that they might destroy it - as indeed happened: that particular  
fragment of soul is no more; you saw to that."
(ibid. p.468)

'"I am glad to see you appreciate the magnitude of the problem," 
said Dumbledore calmly. "But firstly. no, Harry, not seven Horcruxes, 
six. The seventh part of his soul, however maimed, remains inside his 
regenerated body...

...That seventh piece of soul will be the last that anybody wishing to k
ill Voldemort must attack - the piece that lives in his body."
"But the six Horcruxes, then," said Harry, a little desperately, "how are 
we supposed to find them?"
"You are forgetting... you have already destroyed one of them. And I 
have destroyed another."'
(ibid. 470)

This, to me, supports my hypothesis that IF Harry is a Horcrux, then 
he has to die for them all to be destroyed- and hence Voldemort is
finished once and for all. And I do not subscribe to this no-win situation 
- unless when the final whistle blows for time, we find that JKR has gone 
down that route, which I do not believe at this present moment.