Harry Horcrux Question

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 175767

---  "Donna" <donnawonna at ...> wrote:
>
> Please help me understand something. To make a 
> horcrux, a murder has to be committed and a spell 
> cast to put the torn piece of soul into an object
> intended to be a horcrux.  When was the spell cast
> to make Harry a horcrux?
> 
> Donna

bboyminn:

It wasn't. 

Making a Horcrux is a specific and intentional act.
What happened to Harry was a random unintentional
unlikely event that resulting in something 
approximating a Horcrux. Or something that could
be described has resulting in a Horcrux-like result,
but only because 'Horcrux' is the only frame of 
reference we have for the result. 

So, Harry wasn't a Horcrux, he was just Horcrux-ish.
Functionally he was the same as a Horcrux, but he
wasn't literally a Horcrux in the way a Horcrux in
normally created. Some people like to refer to this
as an 'Accidental Horcrux', but I think even that
is over stating it.

For what it's worth.

Steve/bboyminn