CHAPDISC: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Ch. 19: The Silver Doe

[nirupama76]

No: HPFGUIDX 182769

> > 5.  Why did it have to be Ron who destroyed the Horcrux?  Wouldn't 
> > Harry have been able to destroy it just as effectively?  
> 
> aussie:
> Voldemort was connected with Harry. If Harry's emotions were tested 
> by the Horcrux, voldemort may have become aware of the quest Harry 
> was on earlier and the cup and tiarra would have been impossible to 
> touch.
> 

Niru writes:

Somehow I don't think Voldemort would have sensed the destruction of 
the Horcrux if Harry *had* done it. He (Voldemort) was so far steeped 
in evil that he had lost all connection with the severed pieces of his 
soul. In DH, he didn't even seem to be aware that Harry was accessing 
his mind and viewing things as they were happening. He *could* have 
tried to access Harry's mind as he did in OotP but methinks that old 
Voldy got a huge scare from his experience trying to possess Harry and 
wasn't at all keen to experience it again. Actually as I'm thinking 
about this now, isn't it quite something that Voldemort possessed 
Harry in OotP and *still* didn't figure out that Harry was a Horcrux? 
That shows that he's really lost connection to those missing pieces of 
his soul. Anyway I digress.

I think Ron had to be one to weild the sword since he retrieved it 
from the pond under conditions of valour, chivalry, etc. Harry is 
right in his estimate of the incalculable power of certain acts. 

- Niru (not intending to be argumentative but getting carried away 
with Voldemort's connection or lack thereof with his soul pieces).