[HPforGrownups] Re: CHAPDISC: DH27, The Final Hiding Place

[Heather Hadden]

No: HPFGUIDX 184153

> Carol again:
> <huge snip>
> but it was not a true Horcrux in having been deliberately created and having additional protections placed on it, nor did it require Basilisk venom to kill Harry and destroy the soul bit. An AK would have sufficed, at least till the shared drop of blood complicated matters.
 
Heather:
I always saw the Harry Horcrux as Voldemort's soul doing. His soul was already so damaged and mangled, that it acted out on it's own. A way to preserve itself. After so many Horcruxes he made, it wouldn't be a surprise that his soul, after being hit with the AK acted of it's own will to do what it could to try to save itself, so it created it's own container inside of Harry.

On another note, even without the protections on the other horcruxes, it would still take Basilisk venom to destroy it, but it wouldn't take the venom to destroy the horcrux in a human. If Voldemort had created a horcrux inside of a human, and didn't use any protection spells, it would still only take the AK to destroy it. Remember, the only way to destroy a horcrux is to destroy the container so completely that even magic couldn't repair it. The AK would have done that with any human as no magic or anything could bring that person back to life.
 
> Carol, now wondering how the cup and tiara soul bits would have
> manifested themselves if they had not been destroyed
 
Heather, who also wonders about that.