[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry Horcrux Question

[Christine Maupin]

No: HPFGUIDX 175936

:Donna:
> 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?

 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.

 
As is often the case, you make good sense, Steve.


In Chapter 33, The Prince's Tale, Dumbledore says to Snape:  "Tell [Harry] that on the night Lord Voldemort tried to kill him, when Lily cast her own life between them as a shield, the Killing Curse rebounded upon Lord Voldemort, and a fragment of Voldemort's soul was blasted apart from the whole, and latched itself onto the only living soul left in that collapsing building.  Part of Lord Voldemort lives inside Harry, and it is that which gives him the power of speech with snakes, and a connection wit Lord Voldemort's mind that he has never understood.  And while that fragment of soul, unmissed by Voldemort, remains attached to and protected by Harry, Lord Voldemort cannot die." (p. 686 US)

We know that by the time Voldemort killed James and Lily Potter, he had made five Horcruxes (the diary, ring, locket, cup, and diadem), splitting his soul into at least six pieces (more, if one believes the soul is split with every murder one commits, whether or not a Horcrux is made).  Hermoine points out that the book, Secrets of the Darkest Art, "warns ...how unstable you make the rest of your soul by ripping it, and that's just by making one Horcrux!" (p. 103 US)  The fact that a soul piece was blasted apart without Voldemort even being aware of it is indicative of how unstable Voldemort's soul is.


In Chapter 35, King's Cross, Dumbledore says, "What you must understand, Harry, is that you and Lord Voldemort have journeyed together into realms of magic hitherto unknown and untested" (p. 710 US) -- Even though Dumbledore says this after Harry has asked him to give his best guess to explain why his wand behaved as it did, I think the statement applies to more than just the wand.


Christy
  
       
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