Do you agree? (Harry as Horcrux)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 163975

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.

Carol responds:
There's no evidence for preparation. We're told that the spell
*encases* the soul bit, which means that the soul bit must be
available *before* the spell is performed. Nor do we see Tom Riddle
bringing prepared Horcruxes with him to a murder. He killed Hepzibah
Smith to *obtain* two objects for Horcruxes. Presumably, he made the
cup into a Horcrux, using the soul fragment from her murder, but he
could only have made it into a Horcrux after he obtained it, which
would also be after the murder. And the locket would have to use a
different soul fragment. He'd already performed four murders before he
killed Hepzibah, Myrtle and the Riddles. Myrtle's death would
logically relate to the locket and he must have used one of the
Riddles, probably his father, for the ring Horcrux. Using the cup for
Hepzibah, he'd have two murders and one future Horcrux left over. I'm
assuming that he used one of the Riddles, probably his grandfather (a
Riddle by birth unlike his grandmother) for the locket. At that point,
he still had one usable soul bit, probably his grandmother's,
available, but no container to put it in.

Anyway, if anyone can provide any evidence for a preparatory spell,
I'd like to see it. He would have had to take some prepared object to
Godric's Hollow, and had he done so, it, not Harry or his open wound,
would have become the Horcrux. Nor did he cast any preparatory spell
on Harry to give him back his own soul bit or he'd have known that
Harry was a Horcrux and not repeatedly tried to kill him.

Carol, wishing JKR would dispel the Harry!Horcrux theory on her website