Horcrux's Opposite: or, love is more powerful than the Dark Lord's ki

[Neri]

No: HPFGUIDX 169353

> Kemper now:
> <snip>
> DD's spirit (soul) will be allowed to remain on earth by means of an
> Opposite Horcrux.
> 
> Voldemort would not know of this type of magic.
> 
> HBP, US soft, 444, LV to DD:
> "But nothing I have seen in the world has supported your famous
> pronouncements that love is more powerful than my kind of magic,
> Dumbledore."
> 
> The Horcrux selfishly benefits the Dark Wizard.  The Opposite Horcrux
> would need to selflessly benefit another. 


Neri:
Interesting. I've been considering for some time a speculative
Potterverse cosmology in which is the "Opposite Horcrux" is the Life
Debt magic. This theory is based on two canonical details: First, the
Life Debt is, according to Dumbledore "magic at its deepest, most
impenetrable", which would certainly elevate it to a status of
"Love-powered magic", worthy of being the opposite of the Darkest
magic of all. Secondly, according to Dumbledore the Life Debt creates
"a certain bond" between the debtor and savior. What kind of bond
would that be? For such deep magic it seems reasonable that it would
be a bond between the *souls* of the debtor and the savior. Accepting
this little speculation for a moment we end up with a nice little
symmetry:

Horcrux magic: taking life -> splitting the soul.
Life Debt magic: saving life -> creating a bond between souls.
 
Going along with this symmetry we now need a seven-souls bond to
counteract Voldemort's seven-parts soul. Hmmm. While adding Snape to
the list of people owing a Life Debt to Harry (as I believe Dumbledore
implies in SS/PS) this list is still much too short: only Snape and
Peter. And I can't add Ron, Hermione, Ginny and everyone Harry ever
saved because JKR said that Ginny doesn't really owe a Life Debt to
Harry. This deduction seems to have reached a dead end.  

Now, going along with Kemper's development, what if giving your life
for somebody else's life creates a similar bond of Love between the
souls. And what if this bond is the reason Dumbledore and Sirius had
to go. The list of our Seven-Souls Bond would now include:

1. Harry himself (symmetrical with Voldemort being a member of his
seven-part soul).

2. Dumbledore

3. Sirius

4. Lily

5. James

6. ???

7. ???   
 
We are now missing exactly two souls. How interesting. Suppose that in
DH Peter and Snape repay their Debt by saving Harry's life and dying
in the process, and we have our complete Seven Souls Bond. 

Q.E.D.

Well, I wouldn't put any money on this speculation, but just in case
it does happen, you heard it first here.


Neri