Do you agree? (Harry as Horcrux)

[Annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 163909


> Mike:
> I see the soul as an ethereal, non-physical essence. 
> Unlike an organ, like the heart, the soul does not occupy any 
> physical location. It resides everywhere and nowhere within the 
> physical body of the person. <snip>

> This would mean that a Horcrux is holding an essence that resides 
> everywhere and nowhere within the object. The Horcrux encasing 
spell 
> must create a portal through which the soul piece enters the object 
> then closes like one of Captain Kirk's doors after the soul piece 
> passes to within. When Harry stabbed the diary he created his own 
> portal. It is written so we can envision it physically, we can 
> picture the diary with a hole in it. But I suspect that it was the 
> magical quality of the Basilisk fang that *magically* created the 
> portal by which the soul piece escapes it's confines.
> 
> You see where I'm going here? Harry has a physical representation 
of 
> a magical portal on his forehead. JKR had to "mark" Harry to 
simplify 
> the concept for her target audience. We can see the mark so we 
> understand that Voldemort "mark[ed] him as his equal". But the soul 
> piece doesn't *reside* in any particular location. It isn't in the 
> scar, it *got in* through the scar when it was still a cut.

Annemehr:
First, forgive me for replying to your post in two separate posts of 
my own, but I wanted to ponder this part a bit more, to make sure I'm 
not overlooking anything.

I really like your Captain Kirk's door image, but the problem here is 
that Harry was stabbed with the Basilisk fang just before he stabbed 
the diary with it -- so if he *was* a Horcrux, and your theory is 
accurate, he ought to have ceased to be so right then.

That is partly why, in my "De-Horcruxing Harry" post earlier in this 
thread (#163784), I concluded that, if merely making a hole in a Hx 
is enough to release the soul piece, and if Harry is indeed a Hx, 
then the Hx would have to be restricted to his scar.  Other parts of 
him have bled numerous times, including the arm which was stabbed by 
both the fang and the knife Wormtail used to resurrect LV.

I do take note of your idea that is might need to be a magical object 
that creates the new portal, though.

Mike:
> And Harry is protected from being possessed in the same way he was 
> protected from Voldie's AK.

Annemehr:
Well, yes, if you mean by means of love, but by two separate 
instances of love, I believe.

Mike:
> Harry's sub-conscious has access to the soul fragment and visa-
versa. 
> Harry's special connection to Voldemort occurs via the guest soul 
> piece and via the portal, i.e. Harry's scar. Furthermore; Harry's 
> access to the essence of his guest is why he can speak Parseltongue 
> and, ... what else?? We'll see I 'spose.


What else?  Well, I would say, the power of possession.  If you're 
interested, I sorted through some of the canon for this idea back in 
message #119783, before HBP was published.

Annemehr