Harry as Horcrux/De-Horcruxing the Diary

[Mike]

No: HPFGUIDX 163980

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Annemehr" wrote:
> 
> Annemehr:
> <snip>
> 
> 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:
Well you sure poked a hole in that theory <pun intended :-)>. I still 
do like the portal part of my theory, can I keep that? <bg> 

I went back to reread your other post and the scar as portal would 
still fit with your theory. But what wouldn't fit is how the diary 
soul piece got out if Harry didn't stab the "location" of the diary's 
Horcrux. IOW, if Harry wasn't de-Horcruxed when he got stabbed by the 
Basilisk fang because it didn't stab his scar, how come the diary 
*was* de-Horcruxed if it wasn't stabbed in it's Horcrux location? I 
suppose you could say that Harry just got lucky, hit the right spot, 
but it weakens any theory to claim luck was with you. Then again, the 
diary was so small, maybe Harry couldn't help but hit the Horcrux's 
location.

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I had to take a couple of days to ponder the implications of your 
reponse to my theory and your previous post. Sorry, it took me so 
long to respond. Here's what I came up with:

Harry didn't de-Horcrux the diary. The soul piece was already out of 
the diary and was regenerating a physical body by feeding off of 
Ginny or Ginny's soul, if you will. When Harry stabbed the diary he 
broke that connection from Ginny through the diary to the almost 
complete Tom. The connection broke, no more Tom cuz 9/10ths isn't 
good enough, and the soul bit is no longer anchored, its *freeeee*. 
IOW, even if Harry hadn't stabbed the diary it would still no longer 
have been a Horcrux. The soul piece was already out of the diary. Of 
course, if he hadn't stabbed it we would have one more Tom Riddle and 
one less Ginny Weasley.

So, Im going back with my ethereal Horcrux theory. It may still have 
to be extracted through the portal. But I'm back to being convinced 
that there is no specific location of the soul or a soul piece. Harry 
didn't release the soul piece from the diary by stabbing it. He broke 
the connection that was feeding the already escaped soul piece.

OK Anne, go ahead, poke another hole in this one, I can take it ;-)

Mike, still wondering what happens to free roaming soul pieces. Do 
they try to rejoin with the Mothership, or do they just frolic around 
in the meadow until it's time to cross over?


PS:
> Annemehr:
> I sorted through some of the canon for this idea back in 
> message #119783, before HBP was published.
Mike: I'm fixin' to read that one :-)