[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry's scar, love, and the death of Voldemort

[dracojadon at yahoo.co.uk]

No: HPFGUIDX 171540

> Biff:
> A blinding flash of light, followed by thunderous and triumphant
> music (which startled my co-workers to no end), and I had my answer:
> Harry is a horcrux. His ultimate sacrifice is to submit to a
> dementor and let them suck out his soul, only it's not HIS soul-
> it's LV's. He lives, although he is never his former self again.
> I'm sure many will disagree with this, but I am fairly convinced.

Jadon:
The problem with this is - who would that be? If a bit of LV's soul  
has been floating on top of Harry since he was a year old, how has  
Harry managed to be so very unlike LV? And recognisably like James,  
minus the arrogance?
I like the theory - Harry's being so horrified by the dementors sets  
it up for sacrifice, but I can't believe it would really change Harry  
all that much - and if it didn't, would it be a sacrifice?

Relatedly, I think all those hints from former DEs about waiting to  
see whether Harry was the next dark lord are significant (*cue Frodo  
sequence*). At the very least, a potential-to-become-a-dark-lord part  
to the story ("Petunia, you must show love to this baby or his soul  
will become filled with hate, and for the world there will be DOOM").  
One one hand, we have the idea that Harry is very simple and ordinary  
and he was CHOSEN! (by LV), and on the other we have hints here and  
there that actually, he wasn't so ordinary at all - and if dementors  
suck out the LV, perhaps it's that bit we shall see.

All very speculative, of course - how much can Harry be changed in  
one final book? If I had to, I'd bet on the simple-and-ordinary!Harry  
sequence ... but perhaps DD still hasn't 'told Harry everything' -  
there's some part of the story missing as vital as the reasons for  
trusting Snape. Something more about the magic used to save Harry,  
about _Lily_ - how she could do it, why it worked, what marks of  
herself she left in Harry. Is it just something about Lily? - we've  
been told we're going to find that out - or something about Harry,  
too? No baby would ever die in the WW if it was just about choice -  
even if a direct question's necessary all supervillains play up the  
melodrama like LV. And LV - we _know_ this - isn't stupid. I think he  
knew a lot more of what was going on than we do. Snape perhaps knows  
this too.

Jadon