Neither Harry nor his Scar is a Horcrux (Was Re: Voldemort's Age)

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 170337

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Jordan Abel <random832 at ...> wrote:
>
> > Bart:
> > 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...
> 
> Random832
> It assumes that Dumbledore was correct. There's no reason seven  
> _splits_ (and thus by implication eight pieces incl. what's left in  
> his body) doesn't carry the magical significance of 'seven' rather  
> than seven total pieces. (This came up fairly recently, see "Six  
> Horcruxes - is Dumbledore right?"
> --Random832
> 
> (quote from earlier thread for convenience)
> > Miles:
> > In my opinion this dialogue is at least not clear. I really have  
> > problems to
> > believe Tom and Slughorn speak about six Horcruxes without  
> > mentioning the
> > word "six" once.

Geoff:
Six isn't mentioned because Tom and Slughorn talk about seven 
being the perfect number and since, believe it or not :-), Voldemort 
needs to keep a bit of his soul within himself this leaves six fragments
available for Horcruxes assuming that he's aiming for what, in his 
estimation, is the ideal situation. This raises the question as to does 
he /want/ more than the ideal seven fragments since the whole point 
of the Horcruxes is his drive towards gaining immortality?