DD and Harry Potter as "Classic" was "Why down on all the characters?"

[Carol]

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Tiffany Lothamer wrote:
> > Did anyone else ever figure out what that weird baby was in King's 
> Cross?

mmizstorge (I believe--the post is unsigned) replied: 
> According to Rowling in one of the post-DH interviews, it was the
maimed portion of Voldemort's soul that had been inside Harry. 
> Apparently, Harry survived the AK Voldemort used in the forest
because it only succeeded in destroying the fragment of Voldemort's soul.
>
Carol responds:

I don't have the link to the interview you referenced, but I recall it
differently. I'm pretty sure she says that it's the part of
Voldemort's soul that is normally inside him. In any case, Dumbledore
says quite clearly that the soul bit inside Harry was *destroyed* and
that it is *not* what's lying abandoned under the bench. Just as the
Harry in that scene appears to be Harry's soul having an
out-of-body/near-death experience, Voldie's mangled soul seems to be
momentarily in limbo, in the state it would be eternally if he were to
die. Harry later tells Voldemort that he's seen what Voldemort will
become if he doesn't show remorse, and what he has seen is that
horrible, incurably miserable and apparently irredeemably evil child
(which calls to mind the fetal form that Voldemort's body took before
the resurrection spell). The destroyed soul fragment (accidental
Horcrux) that was in Harry is not part of this picture, any more than
the destroyed fragments from the ring, diary, locket, cup, and tiara
Horcruxes are part of it. What we're seeing, I'm virtually certain, is
the 1/8 of Voldemort's soul that inhabits his body. Whether his
mangled soul is actually at the place Harry envisions as King's Cross
or is only part of a vision Harry is experiencing is a matter of
interpretation.

Carol, who has presented numerous canon-supported arguments on this
topic which can be found using this site's Advanced Search function