Harry Potter is not a Horcrux

[Annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 164567

 
> Carol:
<snip>
> 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?

Annemehr:
I think it is quite possible LV does already know that Harry is a 
Horcrux.  He may have discovered or confirmed it at the end of OoP 
while he was possessing Harry, if it is possible for him to detect a 
detached piece of his own soul when he's in direct contact with it. 
(It may not be possible. As we know, he apparently did not detect the 
destruction of the diary Hx and had to be told, so it's hard to say 
whether he could detect a soul bit even if it's right under his 
nose.)  If LV did detect a bit of himself in Harry that night, he had 
no time to do anything about it before he was ejected by Harry's 
emotion for Sirius.

Or, as you say, he may have added up the evidence and come to the 
same conclusion.

If LV does know that Harry is a Horcrux, why would that in itself 
make him hesitate to kill him?  He still has his other, intentional, 
Horcruxes, and Harry is still, as far as LV knows, the one with the 
power to vanquish the Dark Lord -- and there's probably not much 
point in keeping around a Horcrux that's liable to vanquish you.

As we see, LV has in fact made no more attempts to kill Harry since 
the possession foray, and has forbidden his DEs to try as well, even 
if presented with a golden opportunity.  I don't think that has 
anything to do with Harry being a Horcrux (if LV is even aware of 
that), but rather: 1)before making his next attempt, LV first moved 
to eliminate Harry's protector, Dumbledore, and 2)since Harry has 
bested LV numerous times, no mere DE can be allowed to outshine him 
by doing the deed.

Of course, *later on* in DH, maybe Voldemort will be horrified to 
discover that all the Hxes he made are destroyed and the only one he 
has left is the one he never intended to have at all -- Harry himself.

And as I've said before, I'm going with Talisman's theory that Harry 
is no accidental Horcrux, but made by DD himself with the soul bit 
torn from LV at Lily's murder.  (Yes, I know.  "Dumbledore would 
never do that."  We'll see.) 

Carol: 
> 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.)


Oh, I have been looking forward to his appearance in Privet Drive for 
a long, long time!

Annemehr
counting the days...