Harry an accidental Horcrux??

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 170709

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

Tandra:
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> > > 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. 
 
> > Geoff:
> > A quick thought.

> > If, as you suggest, he had possibly already started the 
> > process, it should be remembered that he did kill two 
> > people in advance of his attempt on Harry and if his
> > intent was to kill Harry, so why would he be "assembling" 
> > the Horcrux spell for use that night...
 
> TKJ: 
 
> He would of wanted to use what was prophesied(sp) to be his biggest
> foe as his last Horcrux. That's the way I see it. Yes, he could of
> used Lilly or James but seeing as he seems to be all sentimental about
> things...it makes sense to me that he would of saved the last one for
> his "biggest" enemy. 

Geoff:
Yes, but that doesn't fit the events.

I wonder if you have fallen into the common mistake of treating a Horcrux 
as the actual soul fragment. Remember that "a Horcrux is the word used 
for an object in which a person has concealed part of their soul". 
(Slughorn in HBP "Horcruxes" p.464 UK edition).

If Voldemort went to Godric's Hollow with the intent of making Harry 
into a Horcrux, he would not be casting an Avada Kedavra curse on 
him because a dead Harry could not become a Horcrux.