Harry as a Non-crux - a few thoughts.

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 157855

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "robin" <tiomotzz at ...> wrote:

Geoff :
> > <snip> I believe that Harry as a Horcrux flies in the face of
> > Dumbledore's oft-quoted comment:
> > "It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far
> > more than our abilities." (COS "Dobby's Reward" p.245 UK
> > edition)
> >
> > It has been observed by many contributors to the group that
> > Dumbledore is echoing JKR who, as the author, makes much
> > of choice. <snip>
> 
> 
> Robin:
> Well, my idea is that if Harry is a Horcrux he is an UNINTENDED
> Horcrux and Voldy doesn't realilze it.  If that is the case perhaps
> his position as a horcrux is a bit different and there are aspects
> that don't apply to intended Horcruxes....I do like your idea about
> free choice and it contradicting the idea of being a Horcrux.
> Hmmmm....I will have to ponder on this...

Geoff:
Just to digress slightly from Robin's topic, I have noticed that a few 
posters are getting confused about what a Horcrux is:

'"Well," said Slughorn, "....A Horcrux is the word used for an object 
in which a person has concealed part of their soul."'
(HBP "Horcruxes" p.464 UK edition)

Using the analogy of a tin of biscuits, the biscuits are a person's 
soul fragment, the tin is the Horcrux.

Returning to Robin's comment above, I do not believe personally 
that an accidental Horcrux can occur.

We know that when a murder is committed, the murderer's soul 
is ripped. But that does not automatically create a Horcrux. Looking 
at the list of Voldemort's possible victims which was being discussed 
a few weeks ago, he must have a few bits of torn soul still kicking 
around inside him. Presumably, the act of encasing a soul fragment 
involves a powerful spell which needs to be cast by the wizard 
committing the act and, by extension, would be spoken by him at 
some point after after the murder.

I think that, at Godric's Hollow, even if Voldemort had, as Dumbledore 
believed, intended to make Harry into a Horcrux, he would have had 
no opportunity after his killing curse rebounded to perform the spell 
to create a Horcrux. It couldn't "just happen". 

So I still firmly believe that Harry ain't a Horcrux, not nohow!