De-Horcruxing Harry (Was:Re: Do you agree? (Harry as Horcrux))

[Annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 163784

> > Geoff:
> > If all the Horcruxes have to be destroyed to finally dispose of 
Voldemort,
> > then this scenario dictates that Harry has to die - not might 
have to -
> > but has to.

> > 
> > Sarah:
> > Are you only talking about people who believe that Harry's *whole
> > self* is a Horcrux?  Because I don't know anyone who thinks 
that.  It
> > seems pretty clearly geographically limited to the forehead 
area.  And
> > lots of people survive head surgery don't they?
<snip>

> 
> Geoff:
> As we are told in HBP, a Horcrux is an object in which someone 
conceals 
> part of their soul. Voldemort has lost two[...]. Both of these 
Horcruxes 
> remained afterwards in a damaged condition. 
> 
> However, if a person is made into a Horcrux, where does the soul 
piece 
> reside? Indeed, what form does a soul fragment take? Where does our 
> own soul reside for that matter? Can we see it, touch it? 


Annemehr:
Well...

Just looking at the Horcruxes we know so far (or, we're pretty sure 
of, at least), I think we can guess at a few things.

For one thing, as people have noticed before, de-Horcruxing the diary 
did not hurt Harry.  This tells me that neutralizing a Horcrux does 
not, *in itself,* injure the agent.  So, I conclude, for instance, 
that if Dumbledore's hand got burned in the process of destroying the 
ring Horcrux, it was because of curses LV put in place to *protect* 
the ring, not from de-Horcruxing the ring itself.

Other than that, there may be something else we can guess about 
destroying Horcruxes:

Harry emptied the diary of its soul-piece by stabbing it with the 
Basilisk fang.  And as Geoff noted, the ring is now cracked.  And, 
when the cleaning crew found the locket in Grimmauld place, "nobody" 
could open it.

I'm thinking, to destroy a Horcrux, maybe you simply have to *open* 
it in some way, and the soul-bit will escape.  Stab it, slice it, 
dice it, crack it -- whatever.

Maybe the reason no one could open the locket is because LV used 
something like a Permanent Sticking Charm to seal it.  Or something.

What might this mean for Harry?  

I myself do think Harry is a Horcrux.  Actually, I subscribe to 
Talisman's theory that DD used Lily's murder to put LV's soul-piece 
into Harry before the fateful AK (see, for example, the postscript to 
Talisman's message #163728).  In any case, LV himself did not 
deliberately make Harry into a Horcrux, therefore, he did not place 
any special protective curses around him, either.

The conclusions I draw are:

1. If anyone de-Horcruxes Harry, they will not suffer any injury in 
doing so.

2. De-Horcruxing Harry may involve nothing worse than cutting him.

Of course, Harry has certainly been cut before -- therefore, I 
conclude it is indeed the *scar* that is the location of the soul-
piece.  'Course, that would mean the scar is not a result of the 
rebounding AK, but of the way Dumbledore enHorcruxed Harry.  And like 
Hagrid said about Harry's scar, "that's what you get when a powerful, 
evil curse touches yeh."  Hagrid was talking about an AK, but I think 
he was mistaken.  No, it was the Horcrux spell, and whatever DD did 
to localize the soul-bit in a place on Harry's head instead of his 
whole self (as I imagine Nagini's would be).

And releasing that soul-bit will involve nothing worse than cutting 
the scar open again.  Then, the line we all have read so often will 
literally come true: "it was as if Harry's head was splitting along 
his scar."

Annemehr,
thinking this all this is liable to result in fillet of Nagini, poor 
dear