101 "most" important remaining questions: pt. 1 of 101!

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 166910

Peter Wagner wrote:
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> 1. The link between Harry and Voldemort is due to:
>     a.  the "bit" of Voldemort that is in Harry.
>     b.  a Protego Charm somehow cast there in the backlash of Lily's
sacrifice.
>     c. Lily's soul (or some essence thereof) split between the two
from the backlash of Lily's sacrifice.
>     d. Lily's soul (or some essence thereof)imprinted on the two
from the backlash of Lily's sacrifice.
>     e. something still different (but that will be clarified).
>     f. something that will not be revealed.

Carol responds:
I think we can firmly rule out choice f. JKR won't leave something
this important unrevealed. There is no canon for c or d, so I would
rule them out as well. I used to believe that Lily (whose first wand
was "a nice wand for Charm work") placed a protective spell on Harry
before her death, symbolized by a scar shaped by an eihwaz rune, but
Protegos don't protect against AKs and JKR seems to think that the
sacrifice is what's important. Moreover, nothing that Lily did would
connect Harry to Voldemort; it would only protect him *from* Voldemort.

That leaves us with a and e. Canon suggests that the AK that failed
connected Harry with Voldemort and gave him some of Voldemort's
powers. Note that once he regained a body, Voldemort still retained
his full powers, despite having split off at least four parts of his
soul through the creation of four previous Horcruxes. That suggests to
me that powers do not reside in soul bits. If they did, Voldie's
powers would be severely diminished. So the powers Harry acquired,
including the link to Voldie, seem to relate to the spell Voldie cast
(IMO, cast out of him by his mother's blood protection) but *not* to a
soul bit. So I suppose that qualifies as part a, part e. IMO, any
"bit" or "part" of Voldie that's in Harry is not a soul fragment, nor
is Harry a Horcrux.

Carol, noting that by her standards, this *is* a short answer