[HPforGrownups] Neither Harry nor his Scar is a Horcrux (Was Re: Voldemort's Age)
Bart Lidofsky
bartl at sprynet.com
Fri Jun 15 15:59:09 UTC 2007
No: HPFGUIDX 170309
Jen:
>I don't think LV deliberately made Harry a Horcrux or arrived
>with object in hand/spell prepared only to have the process go awry
>with the rebounded AK. My reasoning is the same as yours (I think)
>given how spells seem to operate in canon: The spell for encasement
>of the soul piece in the object occurs after a murder - not before -
>and thus never took place.
Bart:
I suspect that many have taken JKR a mite too literally in terms of Horcruxes. Murder rends the soul, but it doesn't destroy a piece of it; otherwise horcruxes would be the rule rather than the exception, since it preserves the torn piece. Left to itself, the soul is repaired, albeit not perfectly (I used to know a man who was a sniper in Viet Nam. The experience certainly left his soul scarred, but he was not left a soulless monster). With a horcrux, you complete the process, tearing the piece of soul completely off, to preserve it. Even to thoroughly power-hungry wizards, such a thing would likely not be worth the price. The loophole is that if you are already disconnected from your soul, like Tommy Riddle was, then losing a few pieces won't make much of a difference to you.
Now, as far as him even considering creating a new Horcrux in killing Harry, I doubt it strongly. My logic is that Morty had decades to make his Horcruxes, and he was already well on his way to conquering the WW. I do not believe he would have even STARTED without having created all 7 horcuxes in advance, and, given the power of the number "7", he would have had no plans to create more. Similarly, I don't think he would make a living being a horcrux, because living beings have a nasty habit of dying.
As far as how many horcruxes Morty has left, well, the ring and diary are destroyed. There is the locket, which may or may not have destroyed. And, let's not forget, there's whatever horcrux that contained the piece of his soul now residing in his body. That's 2 destroyed, one maybe destroyed, and one used up. That leaves three more. Assuming that JKR can count, which is NOT a good assumption...
Bart
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