Harry Horcrux Question: PHILIP

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 176118

Niru wrote:
> 
> That's exactly right and I think it raises another interesting
question. This soul bit of Voldemort's that was ripped apart, where
would it have gone if Harry hadn't been there? It appears from
Dumbledore's statement that the soul bit would only have been able to
attach itself to a living being. Seems like some greater height of
dark magic that not even dear old Voldy was aware of.
>
Carol responds:

I don't think so. Ron asks a similar question: "But even if we wreck
the thing it lives in, why can't the soul bit just go and live in
something else?" (DH Am. ed. 104). Phrased another way, "If the soul
bit hadn't lodged in Harry, why couldn't it just go and live in
someone else?"

Hermione responds, "A Horcrux is the opposite of a human being,"
meaning that a soul bit (as opposed to the original human soul) can't
survive long without its container. She tells Ron that if she ran him
through with a sword, his soul would survive unharmed ("Which would be
a real comfort to me, I'm sure," responds Ron in one of my favorite
lines), but "the fragment of a soul inside [a Horcrux] depends on its
container, its enchanted body, for survival. It can't exist without
it" (104). IOW, if the container of a Horcrux is magically destroyed,
the soul bit inside it is permanently obliterated. 

Since no encasement spell has been performed on the soul bit in
Harry's scar, there's no need to destroy the container. The soul bit
is obliterated by the AK that would have killed Harry if it weren't
for the drop of Harry's blood in Voldie's veins and his surviving
Horcrux. Like the soul bits in the true Horcruxes, it can't survive
outside its container. (The creature under the bench, as I hope I've
made clear in previous posts, is not the destroyed soul bit from
Harry's scar but a vision of Voldie's mangled soul as it will be for
all eternity if he shows no remorse.)

At any rate, the soul bit that came loose from Voldie's unstable soul
at Godric's Hollow would not have floated around for long looking for
a suitable container. Hermione says that a soul bit can only briefly
leave its container to enter someone who's emotionally attached to it
(like Ginny with the diary) but can't remain there: "While the magical
container is still intact, the bit of soul inside it can flit in and
out of someone if they get too close to the object [emotionally]," but
once the object is "properly destroyed, the bit of soul trapped in it
[can] no longer exist" (104).

It seems to me that the loose soul bit had just time enough to "flit"
into Baby!Harry, who became its container, enabling it to continue to
exist and function like a true Horcrux, but since no encasement spell
had been performed on it, the container (Harry or his scar) did not
need to be destroyed in order to destroy the soul bit, which ceased to
exist as soon as Volde("you don't learn from your mistakes, do
you?")mort AK'd Harry the second time.

Carol, now wondering whether the lightning-bolt cut was caused by the
AK exploding outward, as she previously thought, or the soul bit
entering Harry without a spell