Oldies But Goodies - Give Em a Hand

[Mike]

No: HPFGUIDX 176394

Mike:
I was trolling through past posts, doing a little research as it 
were, when I came upon some interesting older theory posts. 

The first one had a piece of the puzzle, though not exactly for the 
right reason.

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Sun Oct 30, 2005 6:53 am
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/142313
elfundeb/Debbie:

I am attracted to Horcrux!Harry theories in part because I've always 
thought it fairly likely that Harry would be called upon to sacrifice 
himself. But I've never envisioned that he would have time to brood 
over his supposed lack of choice; it would be a sudden realization of 
the nature of his task. My scenario is this: The Harrycrux would not 
be discovered until the "final" confrontation, in which Voldemort's 
body would be destroyed (not necessarily by Harry) but Vapormort 
would escape.
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Mike:
I'll stop Deb there. Bang on with the sacrifice part of the scenario, 
but ya need to keep that elbow locked on the follow-through. ;))

Steve wrote this post in response to Debbie's. Now I like to give 
credit were it's due, but this one comes from left field. I never 
would have expected that Steve enjoined this specific area of 
theorizing. Steve will explain why.

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Sun Oct 30, 2005 3:23 pm 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/142327
Horcrux!Harry and other great mysteries.
Steve/bboyminn:

As difficult as it is for me to accept any logical Harry!Horcrux
scenarios, let's try this one on for size. Oh so many years ago when
Voldemort tried to kill Harry and the curse rebounded on him and
ripped him from his body, several of Voldemort's many home-soul-pieces
were released into the cosmos.

In that brief moment of being ripped from their home-body the
soul-pieces desperately searched for a new home before joining
Vapormort. In that brief instant, one of many soul-pieces grabbed the
nearest living body it could find and that body was Harry's.
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Mike:
Wow! Way to go Steve. :D  I can't say for sure that yours was the 
first to come up with this scenario, but given how perfectly you 
nailed it, I doubt anyone else did it better.

Mike, who still loves reading old posts, even when the theory has 
been exploded, if they were well written :)