Harry an accidental Horcrux??

[jr_pumpkin]

No: HPFGUIDX 170648

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tandra" <tkjones9 at ...> wrote:
<SNIP>

> So what's to say that if an AK is reflected that the person who cast
> it doesn't lose a piece of their soul in the process. Maybe passing it
> onto Harry through the scar very untintentionally. Isn't there a
> theory that he entered the house with the intent to make his last
> Horocrux anyway, so what's to say he hadn't already started said
> complicated process before he got to the house and it was somehow
> completed when the AK failed.
>
> Ok I've babbled on long enough...Feel free to tear it apart now.

jr_pumpkin:

I came across a passage in my re-read that I haven't noticed before,
but that convinced me that Harry is NOT a horcrux.  (I haven't seen
this mentioned in these discussions before, although I must admit that
I haven't read them all either, so sorry if it has been said before.)

In PS/SS (US hardback p. 299), Dumbledore is telling Harry that
Quirrell could not touch him because of Lily's sacrifice.  He says:

".....Quirrell, full of hatred, greed, and ambition, ***sharing his
soul with Voldemort,*** could not touch you for this reason. It was
agony to touch a person marked by something so good." (***emphasis***
mine)


Reading this again, now knowing about the horcruxes, it seems to me
that Harry cannot contain a part of Voldy's soul, since it would be
agonizing to him to coexist with it.  He would be in a constant state
of burning, agony, pain, etc. because the 'good' from Lily's sacrifice
would be constantly warring with the evil of Voldemort.

Of course, I could be totally reading WAY too much into this one
sentence, too!!!!!  I guess we'll see soon (though not soon
enough!!!!!!!!!!!!)

jr_pumpkin