Harry as a Non-crux - a few thoughts.

[Ken Hutchinson]

No: HPFGUIDX 157859

>
> On 9/3/06, Geoff Bannister <gbannister10 at ...> wrote:
> > 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.
>

> Jordan:
 
> 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.
> 

I agree 100%, Jordan. Goeff compared a horcrux to a cookie tin and I agree
with the comparison. Does opening the tin and removing the cookie 
destroy the tin? No, not if you open the tin by the normal means. Does
crushing the tin into a little metal ball remove the cookie? No it is still 
inside the now destroyed tin.

We know that a horcrux allows its owner to survive an otherwise fatal attack
or accident. We know that a murder is needed to rip off a soul fragment
which can be put into the horcrux. We know that a spell is involved. That is
all we know folks. Everything else that has been written here about them is 
an assumption or a theory.

Slughorn and DD even disagree on what happens to the soul when a horcurx
owner is "killed". Slughorn says *part* of the soul remains earthbound, DD
says *all* of it remains earthbound.

LV wanted an object from Gryffindor to make a horcurx. LV strikes me as the 
sort who would use a human skull for a horcrux. Harry is in a sense something
"of Gryffindor's" because of who his parents were. Having the skull of the
Chosen One sitting on his mantle, a secret horcrux, would have tremendous
appeal to LV as I see him.

IF as many of us expect the horcrux spell can be cast before the murder and 
simply does not take effect until after it is commited and if LV wanted 
Harry's skull as a horcrux as I outlined above, it is quite possible that Harry's
scar is a horcrux.

I see no reason to believe that this would contaminate Harry's soul. I see no
reason to belive that it means that Harry will die, or that Harry's death would
destroy the soul bit in his scar.

Yes, I understand that canon does not require Harry to be a horcrux. I also
understand that it does not deny the possibility. However it turns out I hope
we see Harry and Ginny riding into the sunset on that motorbike at the end.

Ken