Harry Potter is not a Horcrux

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 164564

argentumangela wrote:
> <snip> As for not trying to kill Harry before GoF, I believe he did
try though only indirectly. In GoF, one could argue that he was drunk
with his own power and so tried to eliminate the one who had first
vanquished him. But he hasn't tried to do so directly again, if you
will notice in OoTP and HBP. Both encounters weren't direct attacks on
Harry.
<snip>

Carol responds:
Both in SS/PS and GoF, Voldemort tries to kill Harry directly, which
certainly disposes of the idea that Voldie deliberately made Harry a
Horcrux. There's no question in my mind that Voldie wants the Prophecy
Boy dead in those two books as surely as he did at Godric's Hollow.
His actions also make it clear that *if* Harry (or his scar) is a
Horcrux, Voldie doesn't know it at this point. Nor does this attitude
change in OoP. He fires a number of AKs at Harry, which don't kill him
only because Dumbledore is manipulating the statues from the fountain
to block the curses. And, failing in that effort, he possesses Harry
and tempts Dumbledore to kill Harry in order to kill him (as if DD
would do such a thing even if he didn't know about the Horcruxes). So
it seems to me that he still wants Harry dead. He just got sidetracked
onto the Prophecy in OoP because he thought it might give him
information on how to kill Harry. (He still doesn't know the part
about "he will have power the Dark Lord knows not" and "he will mark
him as his equal," etc.) 

In HBP, he's sidetracked on revenge against Lucius Malfoy via Draco
and against Dumbledore for defeating him in the MoM. Draco's mission,
for him, is a win-win proposition. Either Draco fails and is killed
for his failure, giving Lucius a lesson in the Dark Lord's power and
ruthlessness, or Draco somehow succeeds in getting DEs into Hogwarts
and Dumbledore is overpowered and killed whether Draco commits the
murder himself or not. (And if he does, Voldemort has a new, loyal DE
to take Lucius Malfoy's place.) No doubt Snape fits in there, too. But
basically, Harry Potter can wait a year, till Dumbledore is out of the
way and Snape (whom Voldie would soon learn is the DADA teacher, not
the Potions master) is out of Hogwarts and at his side. (No doubt
Dumbledore was rather pleased by this change in focus; better him than
Harry.)

Anyway, Snape's words to the DEs ring true even though he clearly was
not in on the Vanishing Cabinet plan (and even though, in my view,
Snape was keeping the DEs from Crucioing Harry because he's DDM):
"He's for the Dark Lord." IOW, Voldie still wants Harry dead, but
(conveniently for DDM!Snape) he wants to do it himself.

Surely, if it were possible to create an accidental Horcrux, Voldemort
would by now suspect what had happened. He knows about the blood
protection that protected Harry and vaporized him; he knows that Harry
has escaped him four times (not counting CoS with Diary!Tom); he now
has Harry's blood in his veins and thinks that he shares the blood
protection, which gives him more, not less, reason to want to kill
Harry in GoF (and again in OoP); he knows about the mind connection
provided by the scar; he almost certainly knows that Harry is a
Parseltongue (either Lucius Malfoy, whose source of information would
be Draco, or Snape in his role as double agent would have told him).
If such powers and such a connection could be conferred by a soul bit
inside Harry's scar, surely Voldie would have figured that out by now?
And if such a soul bit could have entered Harry and made him a Horcrux
despite the absence of an encasing spell, surely he'd have stopped
trying to kill Harry by now?

I'm betting that Voldemort, having brought about the murder of Harry's
protector, the only one he ever feared, will try to kill Harry himself
the moment the blood protection expires at 00:01, August 1. (He'll
fail, of course, or there'd be no seventh book.)

Carol, who just thought of a FILK idea, to be sung by Voldemort, that
a Harry!Horcrux supporter may want to attempt: "Just you wait, Harry
Horcrux, just you wait!" (Too bad 'e doesn't 'ave a Cockney accent)