Do we really get our closer?

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 177107

James Casey wrote:
> 
> How could you not see Harry being a Horcrux after the flash back of
that night as it is seen in Godric's Hollow? With all of the "can't
live while the other survives" talk in the book you had to realize.
> 
> Lynda:
> 
> Nope. I didn't. I knew that he "could" be a horcrux and hoped that
if JKR took that line she would do it in a way that would make me
believe it, but I've read enough SF/Fantasy/Thriller/Horror that I did
not see that he had to be a horcrux and I rather hoped he wouldn't be,
to be honest. And yes, she did, in the end make it believable.
> 
> Lynda

Carol responds:

Nor did I. First, we had been told that Horcruxes were deliberate
creations and required an encasement spell, and, second, I didn't see
how JKR could make harry's scar an accidental Horcrux, even getting
around the encasement spell problem, without setting up an
unresolveable dilemma: If Harry had a soul bit in himself, he couldn't
kill or destroy Voldemort because Voldemort would still be immortal
(at best, he'd be reduced to Vapor!mort again), and to destroy the
soul bit, harry himself would have to die, making it impossible for
him to kill Voldemort. The best solution to the dilemma that I could
figure out was simultaneous AKs, and I didn't want Harry to use the
Killing Curse because it was Voldemort's weapon and his own weapon was
supposed to be love.

At any rate, aside from following hard on the heels of the shocking
Bathilda!Nagini incident, which raised new questions of its own, the
Voldemort flashback (for me) chiefly served to show that Voldemort had
gone to Godric's Hollow alone (no Peter the Rat accompanying him), the
Fidelius Charm had already been broken while the Potters were still
alive (by Peter's breach of faith), and James died wandless, rather
than fighting heroically, as Voldie himself had told Harry in GoF.

In short, there was nothing to convince me that Harry was a Horcrux
and a lot to distract me from thinking about that hated theory. I
don't think I believed the theory until Dumbledore told Snape in "The
Prince's Tale" that Harry had a soul bit inside him (and even then,
the term "Horcrux" wasn't used), at which point, I had to concede defeat.

Carol, who did get some predictions right, but not that particular one