Do you agree? (Harry as Horcrux)

[doug rogers]

No: HPFGUIDX 163756

bboymin:

If all-knowing Dumbledore doesn't think Harry is a
Horcrux, then I don't see how I can.

Of course, Dumbledore may have made a mistake, but that
is an extremely glaring mistake; an almost unbelievable
mistake.

doug:

I am of the harry-is-a-horcrux-variation camp :-) I have read  
endlessly all the arguments about why Harry-isn't-a-horcrux. All have  
reasonable answers and counter arguments, but this one. And to choose  
a side assumes much about Dumbledore's understanding and character in  
order to affirm the argument.

When I started into the topic a long time ago on Mugglenet, I asked,  
why don't any of the major characters, powerful wizards,  
knowledgeable magicians all... NONE of them ever speak on magical  
theory, even in general principle. Why do none of them ever voice  
even any sub-vocce thoughts about the nature or the source of the  
magic they use? For Rowling, either it is critical to a plot twist,  
or she doesn't understand it herself. Surely if the characters knew  
the least bit of magical theory, they would come to some conclusion  
about the nature of this essential mystery.

So inasmuch as Dumbledore doesn't speak directly on the topic, it  
isn't out of character in the context of the books, as no one speaks  
anywhere near completely about the theory, except Lupin in teaching  
Harry the Patronus spell, and Bellatrix (?) in saying that 'you have  
to mean it.' That the characters all understand Magic is one of those  
willing suspensions of disbelief we buy when settle in to the books.  
It is such a clever misdirection and must be an  underlying assumption.

Of course, Dumbledore does also confirm Harry's statement that  
Voldemort put a bit of himself into Harry..

Still no one directly states anything. So it is either a glaring  
mistake on Dumbledore's part, because he _must_ as a wizard of such  
respect and position understand magical theory, or it is deliberate  
with-holding on the part of the authour, whom we assume must  
understand the magical theory she is using.

Either side of this is inconclusive.

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