A "bit" of Voldemort

[juli17 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 170365

 


Karen:
> I can just see JKR coming back to that point and  being like "haha you 
> guys thought the bits were just powers, but let me  tell you- they were 
> soul bits!  Doesn't that twist the  plot?!"

Bart:
A day or two ago, I wrote a post, which, based on the  private reaction, 
was not widely understood, so I will make my point  clearer:

A horcrux spell has been described as being quite complex (far  more 
complex than an AK spell, which seems to require the word and the  intent 
more than fine wand movements and precise pronunciation). I find it  to 
be wildly improbable that a spell that was not supposed to be a horcrux  
spell could somehow accidentally become one (as improbable as someone  
dusting the keys to a piano would sound like an expert concert pianist  
playing).
 
 
Julie:
I don't see why not. The AK doesn't replace a Horcrux spell, but when the  AK
misfired one of the aftereffects was the cut that appeared o  Harry's 
forehead,
which allowed the soul bit access into Harry's head. No  prepared Horcrux 
spell,
no intent to put the soul bit inside Harry, but a mere byproduct. So  a loose 
piece
of Voldy's soul (the piece that was created by the murder of James and  
perhaps
intended to be placed in an actual Horcrux container at a later date, not  the
"main" soul piece that drifted away intact within itself and  became 
Vapor!mort)
finds an unexpected place but welcome place to lodge itself provided by the  
open
cut on Harry's forehead--at least more welcome than floating around  
aimlessly, 
unable to move beyond the veil without the rest of the split apart soul,  and 
not
able to reunite with the main soul piece (perhaps because as Voldemort  became
more proactive about creating his Horcruxes, he prepared his soul in  advance 
to
directly release the soon to be split soul piece, rather than removing that  
soul piece
at a later time--and perhaps in a different manner--as he did with the  
Diary). 
 
We don't know enough about the mechanics of creating a Horcrux, or the 
mechanics of removing a split soul piece from any connection to the  "main"
soul to be sure whether or not an "accidental" Horcrux (it's definition  being
nothing more than a container) can be created. We don't really know  where
the soul pieces from the destroyed Horcruxes go, except that it's not  right
back to the main soul piece, or Voldemort would have known the second  the
Diary was destroyed, not to mention the Ring Horcrux. Whether  Voldemort
used a spell to counter what would seem to be a logical attraction  between
soul pieces to "hang together", or the splitting of the soul itself creates  
that
effect, we also don't know. Though it does make one wonder what  happens
to someone who has split or torn their soul once that person is beyond  the
veil--do the pieces actually come together again into one entity if a  broken
one, or do they remain apart (and what does that feel like? Hell,  perhaps?).
 
There are just *way* too many unknowns about Horcruxes, souls both  whole
and split, etc, in the Potter universe for me to dismiss the possibility  
that 
Harry is an "accidental Horcrux"--i.e. that he does have a piece of  
Voldemort's
soul inside him. (As for the fact that the split soul pieces don't seem to  
split
up Voldy's magical powers, since Dumbledore said the resurrected  Voldemort
maintained his full magical abilities, could that mean each soul piece has  
the
same full spectrum of magical ability at its disposal? Which would explain  
why
Harry has many of Voldemort's powers, as well as a piece of his  soul--the two
do not mutually exclude each other.)
 
Julie, hoping some of this makes sense, as the more I think about  Horcruxes
and soul pieces, the more questions I have about  both!





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