Do you agree? (Harry as Horcrux)

[Annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 163907

> > Ken:
> > 
> > PS: Here is a really wild theory that came to me one night this
> > weekend when I woke for some reason. Could Dumbledore have been a
> > horcrux? Tom did make a wand movement in that scene in 
Dumbledore's
> > office and we were intended to believe that was when he cursed the
> > DADA position. What if it had a different purpose entirely? What 
if
> > Tom had become convinced that Dumbledore was the closest thing to 
a
> > Gryffindor relic that he was likely to find? Even I am 
distrustful 
> > of thoughts that come in the middle of the night and yet....
> 
> Mike:
> Alas, here we part company. The scene you were referring to reads:
> 
> "For a second, Harry was on the verge of shouting a pointless 
> warning: He was sure that Voldemort's hand had twitched toward his 
> pocket and his wand; but then the moment had passed, Voldemort had 
> turned away, the door was closing, ..." (HBP p. 446, US)
> 
> He never got to his wand. Unless he knows how to cast the Horcrux 
> encasing spell wandlessly and without Dumbledore realizing it, I'm 
> afraid it was just one of those disjointed dreams.

Annemehr:
Hang on, though.  In OoP, during the Dementor attack in Little 
Whinging, Harry lit his wand in order to *find* his wand, by 
saying "Lumos" when it was inches from his hand.  That's in the book 
for a reason, I bet.

Maybe it's something like electromagnetic induction, eh?  Magical 
induction.

I figure it's likely Voldemort's hand twitch was when he cursed the 
DADA position, but who knows...

Speaking of the DADA curse, I wonder if LV cursed Hogwarts, or 
Dumbledore personally.  I mean, if LV put the DADA curse on Hogwarts, 
it must be still in effect, right?  But if he cursed Dumbledore 
(e.g. "No DADA professor in *your* employ will last more than one 
year."), then with DD's death, the curse would be over.

Mike:
> Now its time for one of my silly questions. Why isn't Harry still 
> protected by whatever Lily did in Godric's Hollow? Does it wear off?

Annemehr:
We may not really know exactly what that protection involved, but it 
did seem to be specific to Harry being touched by Voldemort.  I mean, 
everyone else, from Dudley to Draco, has always been able to 
manhandle/jinx Harry with no ill effects, except LV who had an AK 
bounce, and Quirrell, who was part LV at the time, who couldn't touch 
Harry's skin.  Oddly enough, though, Quirrell was able to truss Harry 
up with magical ropes -- why didn't they bounce like the AK?  Is 
there something more to that AK rebound...?

Anyway, the reason LV used Harry's blood in the rebirthing was to 
negate that protection.  I wonder if it also made LV able to possess 
Harry, as he tried in OoP, except that he was thwarted by *another* 
Love-protection, i.e. Harry's love for Sirius.

Er... was this even what you were asking about? :)

Annemehr

P.S. I wonder about the nature of that DADA curse, specifically the 
theory behind how it is cast.  The curses we know how to cast involve 
uttering a very short incantation e.g. "Avada Kedavra."  But the DADA 
curse seems to be a more spontaneous and creative thing, custom-made 
for the situation.  We haven't really seen that done in the books, 
though I wonder if some of the protections on the Horcruxes may turn 
out to be of a similar type.

Well, maybe Harry's magical education just never got that far.  Don't 
mind me, I'm just musing...