The Killing Curse and Horcruzes WAS:Back to The Plan

[Deborah Krupp]

No: HPFGUIDX 164823

zgirnius:
The AK does not customarily harm the body of its victim (except for 
the minor detail of death <g>), let alone destroy it completely.  Whether that destruction had to do with Harry's protection, or 
Horcruxes, is really an open question.

deborah:

We know from Dumbledore that he is sure Voldemort was planning to use Harry's death to create a horcrux.  We don't really know much about what that entails.  There is no evidence of what the Horcrux spell actually is or how it is performed, simultaneously with the AK curse, before it, after it, or whether it is a complete spell itself that does the killing and creates the Horcrux at the same time.  Nor do we have evidence that a person's body and the bit of soul that resides in it, is not killed if that body is killed.  All we know is that if someone has a horcrux he cannot be completely killed until all his horcruxes are destroyed.  

"Well, you split your soul, you see, and hide part of it in an object outside the body.  Then, even if one's body is attacked or destroyed, one cannot die, for part of the soul remains earthbound and undamaged.  But of course, existence in such a form..."  Slughorn to Riddle in HBP, page 497

I believe if all of the soul within the person who was physically destroyed was safe and protected due to the horcruxes that person had in place, Slughorn would have said "all of the soul remains earthbound" or "the soul remains earthbound," but what he says is that "part of the soul remains earthbound."  This means part of the soul does not remain earthbound; there is no other way to read this line, and as Slughorn instructed Voldemort about horcruxes, I think we must take him as the authority.  

I maintain that what happened at Godric's Hollow was that the spell cast by Voldemort bounced off Harry as he was protected by his mother's sacrifice and that spell then hit Voldemort.  It split Voldemort's soul and killed the bit of his soul within his body simultaneously.  The bit of his soul that had been ripped off was what wandered off to the woods to later be discovered by Pettigrew.  As it was not trapped within a horcrux, it was free to move, think, behave in the manner that Voldemort did.  

In the grand scheme of these books, what does this mean?  The diary, the ring, possibly the locket (if it were destroyed by the mysterious RAB and if it were in fact a horcrux) and the bit that Voldemort killed himself have been obliviated.  And of course, that there is no potential that Harry himself or his scar contain a bit of Voldemort's soul in a horcrux.  

I'm in the camp that Peter Pettigrew was there at Godric's Hollow,(who else could have given Voldemort his wand again?) and Peter blew up the Potter's residence, possibly to hide evidence and create confusion.  My theory on Harry's scar is weak, even to me, but I contend that it was where Voldemort's very powerful spell cracked through and touched him. 


I've enjoyed reading this list.  This is my first attempt to post to this group, so if the elves let it through, I'll be happy to read what you think of my thoughts...

deborah



 
          
 
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