Harry an accidental Horcrux??

Geoff Bannister gbannister10 at tiscali.co.uk
Mon Jun 25 21:19:07 UTC 2007


No: HPFGUIDX 170773

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jeremiah LaFleur" <hpfreakazoid at ...> wrote:
>
> Geoff:
> > 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.

> TKJ:
> I'm not saying he went with the intent to make Harry the Horcrux. I'm
> saying he went with the intent to use the killing of Harry to make his
> last Horcrux. 

> Jeremiah:
> 
> Geoff, TKJ is right. Dumbledore explained in HBP that Harry was supposed to
> be the murder that would create Voldemort's Horcrux. There was no intention
> of making Harry a Horcrux becasue, as DD explains, that would be a very bad
> choice for a horcrux. However, there are people who believe that Harry
> "accidentally" became a horcrux and I'm not inclined to believe it, but I am
> ok with being wrong about that.
> 
> I would think that, seeing as how murder splits the soul and LV has
> committed many murders, the actual "splitting for a horcrux" murders are to
> be special but that doesn't mean LV complete the split. It's just a murder
> and that's all he needs to start the process. I would think it is a whole
> other process to extract the fragment of sould and move it to another
> object. I saying that Murder and Horcrix-ing (sprry for that) are not
> dependent on eachother. LV can kill but not make a horcrux but you have to
> kill to make a horcrux.
> 
> The other issue is this: if LV was going to use Harry's murder to make a
> Horcrux then LV didn't actually make on... he didn't kill Harry. However, he
> did kill James and Lily... but the only think LV did after that was try and
> AK Harry... not make a horcrux, so i don't see how Harry is "accidentally" a
> Horcrux seeing as how it is supposed to be an immensely complicated spell...
> 
> Just my thoughts on it.

Geoff:
I am therefore led to believe that TKJ worded it rather 
ambiguously....

Here is the original quote which led to my reply:

"He would of wanted to use what was prophesied 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 aboutthings...it makes sense to me that he 
would of saved the last one for his "biggest" enemy."

My interpretation of this was that he wanted to make Harry a 
Horcrux, and thus not kill him. 

Which is why I disagreed; I believe that Voldemort wanted to kill 
Harry - full stop. If he had wanted to make Harry into a Horcrux, 
he had just split his soul twice again by killing James and Lily.

Until and unless JKR proves me wrong at 00:01 on 22/07/07, I 
hold to my belief that Harry is not a Horcrux and will live. 

Mark you, I continue to cross my fingers furiously behind my back.
;-)





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