[HPforGrownups] Re: Do you agree? (Harry as Horcrux)

[Kathryn Jones]

No: HPFGUIDX 163963


> Sarah:
> I know I have belabored this point, but it really doesn't seem
> far-fetched to me that an object can't be prepared to accept the soul
> slice in advance of the murder.
> 
> Going with the cake analogy, I think this is a little flawed.  If we
> believe that Tom Riddle *ever* had a soul (and I think we must) then
> the "cake" was in fact already "baked." It has only to be "sliced."
> A Muggle could probably conceive some Goldberg device to snatch a cake
> slice once it is sliced from the rest of the cake, and pull it into a
> box.  Is it so hard to believe a wizard with the powers of Lord
> Voldemort can enchant an object such to ensnare a slice of something
> once the slice is separated from the whole?

   KJ writes:

      I like the cake analogy.  My theory is that the cake was already 
sliced (the murder of Lily if nothing else) and that when the Avada 
Kadavra bounced off the protection afforded by Lily's sacrifice, it blew 
the cake box to Hell and gone, and one little slice of cake struck Harry 
in the head.  Voldemort would have no way of knowing what had happened 
and neither would anyone else because as JKR pointed out, nothing like 
that had ever happened before. Dumbledore was the only one who wondered 
because he already had his suspicions about Voldie's hobby. There was no 
preparation, there was no horcrux container, so it is not going to 
function quite like the other horcruxes.

  KJ