Harry the Horcrux WAS:Re: The remaining Horcruxes....

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 169037

> Gary:
> 
> I think my biggest objection to Harry as a horcrux is simply that LV
> set out to kill infant Harry, and failing that, lost his powers.
> When could he have possibly managed to embed his soul/essence in 
> Harry?  Before he tried to kill him? If so, then why try to kill 
> him. After he failed to kill Harry? Then how did he summon the 
> power to do so?
> 
> The only possible argument would be that he did not intend to kill
> Harry when he cursed him, but did intend to make him his horcrux. But 
> that doesn't square with his obvious intention to kill Harry in the
> graveyard in GoF. Why would he seek to destroy his own horcrux even if
> he did have a new body?
> 
> I'm afraid there are just to many inconsistencies for me to accept 
> the Harry as horcrux scenario.

Jen:  Harry doesn't have to be a Horcrux for a soul piece to have made 
it into the cut that became his scar.  The notion of Horcruxes is about 
the objects Voldemort uses to seal a piece of his soul inside but 
what's important is that a soul can tear when a murder occurs, and two 
murders have occurred prior to the rebounded AK.  

I don't subscribe to the idea that Harry is an intentional Horcrux on 
Voldemort's part or that he's an 'accidental' Horcrux; Voldemort would 
have no idea Harry is carrying around a soul piece.  There's the 
possibility that a ripped soul fragment became the 'bit of himself' 
Voldemort put inside Harry and that explains Harry's powers from LV.  
JKR doesn't have to come up with any mechanism or explanation for what 
happened that way because she already has the perfect scenario - even 
Dumbledore can't explain what happened that night, it was a phenomenon 
new to the WW and can therefore be anything including a soul piece that 
got torn out and found its way into Harry when Voldemort was ripped 
from his body.

Jen